01-04-2011, 12:19 PM
...opted for a sixties solution and bought a waterbed - a plastic envelope that can be wiped down when it gets funky....
Well, that would eliminate one place they might otherwise hide (inside a mattress & box springs) and sounds good to me inasmuch as it accomplishes this much. Bedbugs, however, seem to be so-named because they tend to bite and feed on people while folks are asleep in bed at night, not because the bugs actually live in the beds themselves. Any crevice will apparently do, from nearby pictures hanging on walls to hollow electronic appliance casings (such as inside a TV).
If the lack of reports from the Big island is actually indicative, then it seems like we have somehow ducked the bedbug bullet, at least for the time being. How, exactly, given all the visitors traveling to the balmy year-round-insect-paradise of Hawaii from everywhere (passing through infested hotel rooms en route) and with Hawaii as the midpoint in a bazillion trans-Pacific flights, seems a mystery.
Perhaps it is not so much that there are few to zero incidents of bedbugs here as that those incidents are shushed. This article by Maggie Koerth-Baker speaks to that phenomenon:
Of bedbugs and metacognition
http://www.boingboing.net/2011/01/04/of-...metac.html
I particularly like the point "you can't just extrapolate—one way or the other—from a pattern. Instead, to know what you're actually seeing, you have to use the pattern as a jumping off point, to start looking for causal mechanisms and evidence. Just because something happened in the past, doesn't mean that's what's happening now. But the opposite is just as true. The only way you know for sure is to examine the specific situation."
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Awesome photo (be sure and click on it to embiggen for even vaster awesomeness)
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badast...e-picture/
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Well, that would eliminate one place they might otherwise hide (inside a mattress & box springs) and sounds good to me inasmuch as it accomplishes this much. Bedbugs, however, seem to be so-named because they tend to bite and feed on people while folks are asleep in bed at night, not because the bugs actually live in the beds themselves. Any crevice will apparently do, from nearby pictures hanging on walls to hollow electronic appliance casings (such as inside a TV).
If the lack of reports from the Big island is actually indicative, then it seems like we have somehow ducked the bedbug bullet, at least for the time being. How, exactly, given all the visitors traveling to the balmy year-round-insect-paradise of Hawaii from everywhere (passing through infested hotel rooms en route) and with Hawaii as the midpoint in a bazillion trans-Pacific flights, seems a mystery.
Perhaps it is not so much that there are few to zero incidents of bedbugs here as that those incidents are shushed. This article by Maggie Koerth-Baker speaks to that phenomenon:
Of bedbugs and metacognition
http://www.boingboing.net/2011/01/04/of-...metac.html
I particularly like the point "you can't just extrapolate—one way or the other—from a pattern. Instead, to know what you're actually seeing, you have to use the pattern as a jumping off point, to start looking for causal mechanisms and evidence. Just because something happened in the past, doesn't mean that's what's happening now. But the opposite is just as true. The only way you know for sure is to examine the specific situation."
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Awesome photo (be sure and click on it to embiggen for even vaster awesomeness)
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badast...e-picture/
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Astonishing skill! This archer is a real-life Legolas and then some!
http://geekologie.com/2013/11/real-life-...rs-anc.php
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Astonishing skill! This archer is a real-life Legolas and then some!
http://geekologie.com/2013/11/real-life-...rs-anc.php
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