MM27
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I think with birds it caused the shells of eggs to be so thin the nesting parents would crush the eggs before they could hatch. I think that's one of the reasons the Bald Eagle almost went extinct, in fact, though I'm sure many other species had the same problems. It's bad for people too.
While the thought of bed bugs makes my skin crawl, bed bugs aren't harmful, their bites don't itch and they don't spread disease. I'd take them over poision chemicals that harm both people and the enviroment.
I had a boy in my class last year that had bed bugs in his apartment and he was always itching and complaining about how bad the bites were.
Bedbugs release a chemical to keep your blood from clotting while they suck your blood. Not everyone is allergic to the chemical, but some are.
I did a lot of research about bed bugs because I was terrified that I was going to bring them home. Same thing happens whenever the nurse tells me a kid has lice and I suddenly get all itchy.
As others have said, heat kills them. This is only going to get worse before it gets better. The local movie theater here had 3 theaters that had them and I just heard yesterday that they are spreading through the mall. Two of the big anchor stores have had reports of them.