Originally Posted by BellaBoo
When the inexpensive insecticide used to kill the bedbugs completely was outlawed, they have made a come back. I read that the stuff used to kill them now is too expensive for the general population overseas to buy so the bed bugs are spreading.
"Bedbugs have been a non-issue for many decades now, as they seemed to have phased out. But their recent reemergence has many in the scientific community looking for answers. Some blame the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) 1972 ban on DDT, a synthetic chemical pesticide."
Sorry didn't see the full posts, already mentioning DDT.