Good night, sleep well, don’t get bitten by bedbugs! A silly nursery rhyme that most kids don’t even remotely understand. This is because these bloodsuckers have not been a problem in most children’s world for many generations.
That is, until now. But it’s ridiculous to think that a silly rhyme would make someone feel better!
Bed bugs were mostly eradicated from the United States thanks to DDT after World War II. While these horrible parasites were common, in a matter of about 5 years, they were basically ancient history. Kind of like electricity got rid of candles, bed bugs used to be everywhere and then they were gone.
But then things changed… Now all of a sudden we’re dealing with them everywhere. What we once thought was gone is now showing up in all sorts of public places. Not only in hotels but in cinemas, shopping malls, airplanes, theme parks, etc. Heck, people got bedbugs from shopping at Victoria’s Secret, for God’s sake!
How the heck did this turn of events happen? How do we go from nowhere to everywhere in a short period of time?
It can all be attributed to what is known as “Pesticide Resistance”.
The pesticides used to kill bed bugs have all been synthetic. That means they do not exist in nature but are created by scientists in a laboratory. Chemical companies created all kinds of synthetic pesticides (including DDT) and virtually eliminated them all. But then the nasty scientific phenomenon known as pesticide resistance came into play.
Pesticide resistance: When you use a synthetic pesticide, it works for a while. But eventually, all the insects they are meant to kill become immune. The more varieties of synthetic pesticides used to control a particular pest, the more they become Super Bugs, which means they are resistant to almost everything. That is exactly what we have today: Super bed bugs that are immune to the pesticides created to control them. It is an accurate statement to say that almost all synthetic pesticides known to man today are useless to treat. Otherwise they wouldn’t be a problem.
So what do we do? How can they be controlled? Is it because of scientific advances in laboratories?
Absolutely not! It is up to nature and its offerings to give us the ability to safely and effectively control this nemesis.
Cedar is nature’s ingredient to control ALL the bugs you don’t want. And there is absolutely no way bed bugs can become immune to cedar. That’s because cedar is natural. Not synthetic. Insects can only become immune to natural UN substances.
Armed with this knowledge, there is no longer any need to fear bed bugs. If you tell silly stories at night to children who are tucked up in bed, thank God they don’t need to understand it yet!