Bed Bugs: Learnings from the Little Ones A teenage George
Washington quickly abandoned an infested bed in the Shenandoahs
more than 250 years ago. Today, area residents of all ages are
jumping in their jammies. This region is already among the top
ten areas hit by the recent bed bug infestation, and it’s
predicted by an exterminator president to approach the
notoriously overrun New York City in a year or two. Denizens
disturbed by the news, a.k.a. “Attack of the Blood Sucking
Bugs,” should take something FROM the creatures for a change. A
Little Perspective: Tell a formerly infested acquaintance that
you might have bed bugs. She’ll gasp in horror and drop urgent
work and needy kids for you, her new top priority. Bed bug
crises were likely atop her and many others’ list of the year’s
“Ten Worst” as they lost time, health and sleep in taxing bug
battles. In the past, those pests were more common. But they
were less commented upon. Poverty, war and acute hunger
relegated bed bugs to a smaller part of the daily s