{"id":12117,"date":"2023-11-04T20:03:18","date_gmt":"2023-11-04T20:03:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=12117"},"modified":"2023-11-04T20:03:18","modified_gmt":"2023-11-04T20:03:18","slug":"its-not-just-paris-theres-a-global-resurgence-of-bedbugs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=12117","title":{"rendered":"It\u2019s not just Paris. There\u2019s a \u201cglobal resurgence\u201d of bedbugs."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\n\n&#8220;There are some obvious reasons. More people live in cities now, and bedbugs love densely packed warm bodies. We\u2019re also traveling more than&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/ourworldindata.org\/tourism\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">ever before<\/a>, giving bedbugs an opportunity to spread (see: horror stories of&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/travel\/2023\/06\/05\/bed-bugs-fears-rise-travel\/70283447007\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">bedbugs in Airbnbs<\/a>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But the main reason why it\u2019s boom time for bedbugs, according to the review, is that they\u2019ve evolved resistance to many pesticides, our main line of defense. Indeed, these critters are now resistant to \u201cmost of the major classes of insecticides,\u201d the review states, including pyrethroids, which is still one of the most commonly used insecticides. They\u2019ve also developed resistance to DDT, which attacks insects in a similar way to pyrethroids.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/down-to-earth\/2023\/10\/15\/23914204\/paris-france-bed-bugs-infestation-outbreak\">https:\/\/www.vox.com\/down-to-earth\/2023\/10\/15\/23914204\/paris-france-bed-bugs-infestation-outbreak<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;There are some obvious reasons. More people live in cities now, and bedbugs love densely packed warm bodies. We\u2019re also traveling more than ever before, giving bedbugs an opportunity to spread (see: horror stories of bedbugs in Airbnbs).<br \/>\nBut the main reason why it\u2019s boom time for bedbugs, according to the review, is that they\u2019ve evolved resistance to many pesticides, our main line of defense. Indeed, these critters are now resistant to \u201cmost of the major classes of insecticides,\u201d the review states, including pyrethroids, which is still one of the most commonly used insecticides. They\u2019ve also developed resistance to DDT, which attacks insects in a similar way to pyrethroids.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.vox.com\/down-to-earth\/2023\/10\/15\/23914204\/paris-france-bed-bugs-infestation-outbreak<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[1972,1971],"class_list":["post-12117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-bedbugs","tag-paris"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12117"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12117\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12118,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12117\/revisions\/12118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}