Over the last year, bed bugs certainly got their 15 minutes of fame, and then some. In recent months it's been difficult to find a day when bed bug infestations did not make the news. Some stories focused on the "ick" factor of the burgeoning infestations: movie theaters, retail clothing stories and hotels. Other stories focused on illegal control efforts: unlicensed PCOs using agricultural pesticides inside structures. And still others talked about the difficult job of controlling bed bugs, which don't need many resources to survive, and that have begun exhibiting resistance to a number of commonly used pesticides.
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