08-20-2010, 02:43 AM
Bedbugs are increasingly in the mainland news and now two people I know personally (one in Austin, the other in San Francisco, both of them quite clean and tidy folks in general) tell me they have recently gone through an ordeal to eliminate bedbugs from their homes.
A quick web search shows bedbugs have been a problem on Oahu since at least 2006. http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/articl...80338.html
This 28OCT2008 note reflects bedbug complaints against the King Kam hotel in Kona (http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2008/1...each_Hotel). I stayed there recently and was impressed by the remodeling they have done; so far no bedbugs appear to have stowed away in my suitcase and been subsequently brought back to Puna.
My friends in Austin and SF are cautioning me to forget about buying any yard sale or thrift store item which could harbor a bedbug. That is, no furniture, framed pictures, books, fabrics, appliances or electronics, and so on. Just about the only "safe" items seem to be sealed cans, chemicals, glassware, and suchlike (and even then not if these are carted back home in a cardboard box from the yard sale or store!) My friends are unsure of the sources from which their bedbug infestations arose, but the SF friend suspects a framed picture purchased at a yard sale or thrift store and the Austin friend suspects the suitcase of a traveling houseguest as being the most likely sources. Their experience is that getting rid of bedbugs once they are present in a home is a lengthy, labor-intensive, expensive, and maddening ordeal. Not, they stress, worth a bargain treasure discovered at a yard sale.
As someone who adores bargain treasures discovered at yard sales and stays at hotels like the King Kam, I feel a bit alarmed at all this and wonder if anyone on Punaweb knows of any actual confirmed bedbug incidents here in Puna or elsewhere on the Big Island? How widespread a problem are these pesty critters, locally?
Apparently people feel a stigma associated with bedbugs such that they try to keep it secret if an infestation occurs. Given that bedbugs are showing up in ritzy NY mansions with maids & cleaning staffs and at business venues like the CNN headquarters it is probably time to let go of an outdated and unwarranted association between bedbugs and a lack of cleanliness. Still, if you know of episodes of bedbugs on the Big Island but are reluctant to post what you know here for fear others will think you have cooties, then I encourage you to create a new alternative identity for Punaweb (e.g., BedBugReporter1, BedBugReporter2, etc) and so use that alternative identity to post that which you know completely anonymously. I, for one, would appreciate knowing peoples' local experience with these pests, if indeed bedbugs have made their way to the Big island.
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Nirvana vs Rick Astley
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q1YABGdai5k
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A quick web search shows bedbugs have been a problem on Oahu since at least 2006. http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/articl...80338.html
This 28OCT2008 note reflects bedbug complaints against the King Kam hotel in Kona (http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2008/1...each_Hotel). I stayed there recently and was impressed by the remodeling they have done; so far no bedbugs appear to have stowed away in my suitcase and been subsequently brought back to Puna.
My friends in Austin and SF are cautioning me to forget about buying any yard sale or thrift store item which could harbor a bedbug. That is, no furniture, framed pictures, books, fabrics, appliances or electronics, and so on. Just about the only "safe" items seem to be sealed cans, chemicals, glassware, and suchlike (and even then not if these are carted back home in a cardboard box from the yard sale or store!) My friends are unsure of the sources from which their bedbug infestations arose, but the SF friend suspects a framed picture purchased at a yard sale or thrift store and the Austin friend suspects the suitcase of a traveling houseguest as being the most likely sources. Their experience is that getting rid of bedbugs once they are present in a home is a lengthy, labor-intensive, expensive, and maddening ordeal. Not, they stress, worth a bargain treasure discovered at a yard sale.
As someone who adores bargain treasures discovered at yard sales and stays at hotels like the King Kam, I feel a bit alarmed at all this and wonder if anyone on Punaweb knows of any actual confirmed bedbug incidents here in Puna or elsewhere on the Big Island? How widespread a problem are these pesty critters, locally?
Apparently people feel a stigma associated with bedbugs such that they try to keep it secret if an infestation occurs. Given that bedbugs are showing up in ritzy NY mansions with maids & cleaning staffs and at business venues like the CNN headquarters it is probably time to let go of an outdated and unwarranted association between bedbugs and a lack of cleanliness. Still, if you know of episodes of bedbugs on the Big Island but are reluctant to post what you know here for fear others will think you have cooties, then I encourage you to create a new alternative identity for Punaweb (e.g., BedBugReporter1, BedBugReporter2, etc) and so use that alternative identity to post that which you know completely anonymously. I, for one, would appreciate knowing peoples' local experience with these pests, if indeed bedbugs have made their way to the Big island.
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Nirvana vs Rick Astley
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q1YABGdai5k
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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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