creepy

i know that i just posted on bedbugs last week, and this doesn’t necessarily mean a weekly bedbug update, but this article in the new york times is a really interesting read on how scientifically elusive bedbugs have been since their resurgence in the 90s. entomologists can only speculate as to what facilitated their rapid spread, where in the world they came from, and, most importantly, how the heck we can get rid of them. even more puzzling (and equally refreshing) is that they don’t carry or transmit diseases, making them just as clean as a baby’s armpit, only filled with human blood.

that said, i’m not sure if i totally buy their clean bill of health. you know how we look back on the dark ages and we’re like, ‘how could they not have known it was the fleas that carried the plague??” i feel like posterity is going to look back on us in these dark ages and be like ‘how could they not have known that bed bugs were carrying bieber fever??’ you never know, but you can speculate.

one of the most surprising things i learned in this article is what great senses of humor entomologist have. what a hoot!

now please get back to work and find us a cure. PLEASE!