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(Mother Nature Network)   Old and busted: Bed bugs are infesting America's bedrooms. New insectological scare: Kissing bugs are sucking your blood at night   (mnn.com) divider line 27
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2012-03-21 02:44:24 AM
Think they ain't?
man-over-board.com
 
2012-03-21 06:16:55 AM
Insectological? Was entomological not sufficient or something?
 
2012-03-21 06:53:39 AM
farm1.staticflickr.com
 
2012-03-21 07:02:44 AM
Kissing bugs? When I was a kid we still called those cooties
 
2012-03-21 07:28:57 AM
Is that like mono?
 
2012-03-21 08:03:09 AM
Kissing bugs, and old news.

/waiting for the rebirth of the Red Scare
 
2012-03-21 08:21:55 AM
Nevermind that, someone tell me how to get rid of these farking stink bugs already! Invasive species is invasive.
 
2012-03-21 08:28:37 AM
nekom: Nevermind that, someone tell me how to get rid of these farking stink bugs already! Invasive species is invasive.

I bought a thing called Bugzooka, which sucks them into a holding chamber. Once I get a bunch in the chamber I freeze them to kill them, and toss them out.

I saw a cool thing a guy made out of a two-liter plastic soda bottle. He cut it near the top where the neck begins to curve, flipped the top over and shoved it in the cylindrical bottom piece, and placed the thing on an LED light in his attic. He caught hundreds each night.
 
2012-03-21 08:35:15 AM
Do the pictures of these remind anyone else of Indigo Prophecy?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cca2RGz-oBA&t=10m20s
 
2012-03-21 08:39:45 AM
Mosquitoes do it during the day while you are awake. What's the big deal?
 
2012-03-21 08:57:59 AM
RexTalionis: Insectological? Was entomological not sufficient or something?

Repeating bears or somesuch.
 
2012-03-21 09:18:31 AM
St_Francis_P: nekom: Nevermind that, someone tell me how to get rid of these farking stink bugs already! Invasive species is invasive.

I bought a thing called Bugzooka, which sucks them into a holding chamber. Once I get a bunch in the chamber I freeze them to kill them, and toss them out.

I saw a cool thing a guy made out of a two-liter plastic soda bottle. He cut it near the top where the neck begins to curve, flipped the top over and shoved it in the cylindrical bottom piece, and placed the thing on an LED light in his attic. He caught hundreds each night.


You'd be surprised how many insects can survive a deep freeze. Besides, why in god's name would you put em in your freezer where your food is? Why not just spray some raid in the container and be done with it?
 
2012-03-21 09:34:10 AM
kidgenius: St_Francis_P: nekom: Nevermind that, someone tell me how to get rid of these farking stink bugs already! Invasive species is invasive.

I bought a thing called Bugzooka, which sucks them into a holding chamber. Once I get a bunch in the chamber I freeze them to kill them, and toss them out.

I saw a cool thing a guy made out of a two-liter plastic soda bottle. He cut it near the top where the neck begins to curve, flipped the top over and shoved it in the cylindrical bottom piece, and placed the thing on an LED light in his attic. He caught hundreds each night.

You'd be surprised how many insects can survive a deep freeze. Besides, why in god's name would you put em in your freezer where your food is? Why not just spray some raid in the container and be done with it?


Raid only annoys them, they live for a long time. And stink. They don't stink when I freeze them, and they die quickly in the cold.
 
2012-03-21 09:41:16 AM
debug: Mosquitoes do it during the day while you are awake. What's the big deal?

I don't know, Chagas disease? (new window)
 
2012-03-21 10:03:59 AM
hobnail: debug: Mosquitoes do it during the day while you are awake. What's the big deal?

I don't know, Chagas disease? (new window)


And you can get malaria, elephantiasis, yellow fever, dengue fever, epidemic polyarthritis, Rift Valley fever, Ross River Fever, St. Louis encephalitis, West Nile virus, Japanese encephalitis, La Crosse encephalitis and several other encephalitis type diseases.

Eastern equine encephalitis (EEE) and Western equine encephalitis (WEE) occurs in the United States where it causes disease in humans, horses, and some bird species. Because of the high mortality rate, EEE and WEE are regarded as two of the most serious mosquito-borne diseases in the United States. Symptoms range from mild flu-like illness to encephalitis, coma and death.
 
2012-03-21 10:10:30 AM
At first I was: OMG! That's terrible!

Then they said it was the bottom 2/3's of the U.S., so I stopped caring.

Anyone else have the same reaction?
 
2012-03-21 11:09:08 AM
Researcher: At first I was: OMG! That's terrible!

Then they said it was the bottom 2/3's of the U.S., so I stopped caring.

Anyone else have the same reaction?


Yep. I feel the same way about fire ants. Makes winters a bit easier to bear when I think about all the nasty critters it keeps away.
 
2012-03-21 11:17:50 AM
Ummm...Bed bugs have been sucking your blood at night also.
 
2012-03-21 11:45:46 AM
hobnail: debug: Mosquitoes do it during the day while you are awake. What's the big deal?

I don't know, Chagas disease? (new window)


As opposed to malaria, West Nile, encephalitis, Dengue....
 
2012-03-21 12:23:34 PM
If God really loved us, he would have made blowjob bugs.
 
2012-03-21 12:57:15 PM
No no... Just finished my medical parasitology final yesterday, and now I read this. Crap, its like the news doesn't want me to sleep.

/chagas' disease is no picnic
 
2012-03-21 01:58:18 PM
FTFA: By examining 13 bugs collected in Arizona and California, a team of researchers found that five of the insects were infected with the parasite, and - more surprisingly - five of the 13 had fed on human blood. (None of the bugs that had fed on humans also carried the parasite.)

This is proof that human blood kills the parasite.

/Why yes Mr. Santorum, I do beleive in Intelligent Design.
 
2012-03-21 05:15:26 PM
debug: Mosquitoes do it during the day while you are awake. What's the big deal?

Chagas disease is debilitating and can be chronic in Latin America, where it is spread by different insects from those in the USA. It can cause extensive heart damage when it is chronic, so it can kill you. It can be spread by blood transfusions as well as biting insects of a number of species.

The highest disability-adjusted life years (DALY) is in Bolivia, at 450 years per 100,000 people, and most of the world, including the United States lose less than 10 years per 100,000 people, if I read the Wikipedia article correctly.

Disability-adjusted life years is the number of years lost to a disease in terms of sickness, disability or death.

Clearly this is not a major problem in the US (only in Central and South America) and it can be prevented. Northern species of insects that carry it seem to be less effective vectors, as the article says, because they don't crap where they eat.

Here's the Wikipedia article on the disease:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chagas_disease

Here's a map of DALY for Chagas (Wikipedia): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Chagas_disease_world_map_-_DALY_-_WH O2004.svg

Here's a map for ALL CAUSES (Wikipedia): http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b7/All_Causes_world_ma p_-_DALY_-_WHO2004.svg

The one good thing about bedbugs is that they aren't known to spread any diseases. Chagas is now a possible exception, which could be really bad news in the future, especially if the disease spreads in the USA with global warming induced invasions of the insects which carry the disease in South America.

Until this happens, most Americans don't have to worry about ever contracting Chagas unless they travel or live in the South West where it very occasionally occurs along with the odd case of some tropical diseases more associated with Africa, South America or Asia.

I recall reading on another site that the landlady of a soldier returned from Iraq contracted a tropical disease that is rare in the US (more common in Mexico) but which is common in the Old World (Africa, the Middle East and South Asia). She may have gotten it from the author of the post or not. It is sometimes hard to say where the vector lies unless you do DNA testing above and beyond usual medical procedure.
 
2012-03-21 07:34:06 PM
I remember seeing a show on Discovery or something saying that the parasite eats your heart and a transplant is the only option - and no - the transplant will not rid you of them.
 
2012-03-21 09:36:57 PM
St_Francis_P: kidgenius: St_Francis_P: nekom: Nevermind that, someone tell me how to get rid of these farking stink bugs already! Invasive species is invasive.

I bought a thing called Bugzooka, which sucks them into a holding chamber. Once I get a bunch in the chamber I freeze them to kill them, and toss them out.

I saw a cool thing a guy made out of a two-liter plastic soda bottle. He cut it near the top where the neck begins to curve, flipped the top over and shoved it in the cylindrical bottom piece, and placed the thing on an LED light in his attic. He caught hundreds each night.

You'd be surprised how many insects can survive a deep freeze. Besides, why in god's name would you put em in your freezer where your food is? Why not just spray some raid in the container and be done with it?

Raid only annoys them, they live for a long time. And stink. They don't stink when I freeze them, and they die quickly in the cold.


I just got done solving bed bugs, havent had any experience with stink bugs yet, will let you know.
 
2012-03-21 10:28:41 PM
debug: Mosquitoes do it during the day while you are awake. What's the big deal?

Well, one part of it is the size:

i42.tinypic.com

Note the eye at the bottom of the picture. Sure, not huge, but still a good 100x the mass of your average mosquito.

Second is that mosquitos transmit disease by spitting into you while eating. The kissing bug bites you, then sh*ts into the wound. That's how you get Chagas. Enjoy your night!
 
2012-03-22 06:27:17 PM
Actually, it shiats near the wound and the victim pushes it into the wound by itching the bite area.

Still, no more deadly then the average mosquito and no one gives a shiat about those things. Just your yearly fear mongering. It was a mild winter so they couldn't go all crazy on the super flu this year. Had to come up with something.
 
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