{"id":5565,"date":"2015-09-01T10:49:26","date_gmt":"2015-09-01T00:49:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ppmmagazine.com.au\/?p=5565"},"modified":"2021-04-24T02:33:06","modified_gmt":"2021-04-23T16:33:06","slug":"bed-bug-trivia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/professionalpestmanager.com\/nz\/professional-pest-manager-magazine\/bed-bug-trivia\/","title":{"rendered":"BED BUG TRIVIA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>Stephen Doggett<\/strong> from the Department of Medical Entomology, Westmead Hospital shares some interesting trivia about bed bugs.<\/em><!--more--><\/p>\n<div class=\"hr-thick\"><\/div>\n<p>In the late 1890s a traveller in the US was writing his name in the hotel register when a bed bug appeared. He stated that, \u201cI\u2019ll be darned if I was ever in a place before where bed bugs crawled over the hotel register to find out where your room was!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In the early 1900s bed bugs were so common on country Australian trains, that the railway authorities had a bed bug apology form letter.<\/p>\n<p>In 1933, a wealthy businessman in New York filed for divorce as he found bed bugs in his bed. He lost his court case \u2013 but naturally it was his wife\u2019s fault!<\/p>\n<p>During WWII, prisoners of war had portions of their liver removed to develop a bed bug poison.<\/p>\n<p>Bed bugs as torture weapons. During the infamous years of the Gulags in the former USSR, a coffin was filled with bed bugs into which the victim was placed.<\/p>\n<p>In 1951, the State of Maryland (USA) taxed professional hotel bed bug hunters by making them take out a licence. This made considerable money for the state.<\/p>\n<p>During the early 1970s it was noticed that bed bug infestations increased after continual spraying of DDT for anti-malarial campaigns. Perhaps this provides an insight into the origins of modern resistant bed bugs? Interestingly, as revealed in a recent bed bug book by Brooke Borel (called <em>Infested<\/em>), Western scientists blame Eastern Europe for the origins of modern bed bugs, while Eastern European scientists blame the West!<\/p>\n<p>During the 1930s, there was a religious sect in Tokyo who treated bed bugs (and other insects) as gods \u2013 perhaps they should be called \u2018entomologists\u2019!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stephen Doggett from the Department of Medical Entomology, Westmead Hospital shares some interesting trivia about bed bugs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":133,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"Stephen Doggett from the Department of Medical Entomology, Westmead Hospital shares some interesting trivia about bed bugs.","_seopress_robots_index":"yes","_gspb_post_css":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"company":[],"pest":[166],"pesticide":[],"product-service":[],"class_list":["post-5565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-professional-pest-manager-magazine","pest-bed-bugs","wpbf-post"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/professionalpestmanager.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5565","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/professionalpestmanager.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/professionalpestmanager.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/professionalpestmanager.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/133"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/professionalpestmanager.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5565"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/professionalpestmanager.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5565\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/professionalpestmanager.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/professionalpestmanager.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/professionalpestmanager.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5565"},{"taxonomy":"company","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/professionalpestmanager.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/company?post=5565"},{"taxonomy":"pest","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/professionalpestmanager.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pest?post=5565"},{"taxonomy":"pesticide","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/professionalpestmanager.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pesticide?post=5565"},{"taxonomy":"product-service","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/professionalpestmanager.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product-service?post=5565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}