I work in pest control, and unfortunately it is a matter of cost and expertise. Bedbugs were wiped out almost world wide when we used DDT, but as happens when you expose populations to a single chemical long term the ones that survived developed resistance. It just so happens that pyrethroids (the most common class of pesticide used non-agriculturally now) have the same chemical mode of action as DDT, so when air travel become commonplace, they spread everywhere and were highly resistant to most of the tools exterminators had.

Now the newer products work much better, but are expensive and STILL require a lot of prep to be 100% effective. 90% of the bed bugs will be in the bed, but especially as populations rise they will spread out all over the room (and through the walls as you know). You have to wash all your clothes and sheets (high heat for 30 minutes to kill the eggs), you have to place all other random items in bags and use treatment in those, you have to pull out all your dresser drawers and treat those as well as inside the dresser etc etc. Basically every available surface, even up the the ceiling has to be treated, as well as inside the walls. You do all of that, but if just one pregnant female survives, and you'll end up in the same situation months later. I explain all this to people who have them but when I show up to treat it 9/10 times they haven't done it all so I have to either walk away or spend an extra hour doing it for them. Too often people just aren't willing to be thorough, poor or not

Treating just one room in a house is bad enough, but if you have a hotel or other multiunit building, its game over unless the ENTIRE building is treated. Then people bring more in from travel or their friends/family members who are too much of a mess to take care of it and the cycle starts again.

I think the US media is already exposing everything about Trump. Wikileaks is only leveling the playing field

This situation is a little more complicated than cry wolf because it is a communication to both the townspeople and the wolves. I imagine it reaches some kind of equilibrium where newcomers on both sides heed it, but since it drones on 24/7 eventually they'll start ignoring it.

I would agree with the "cry wolf" assessment. Having worked in pest control in my experience pheromones don't work well and/or very long; about the only good use I've found is for monitoring. I once talked to a Chemistry professor working with an Entomologist to synthesize fire ant trail pheromones (how they make paths to food) to see if it could be used to confuse workers. He told me it worked for all of a few minutes before they "figured it out" and started trailing through it like nothing happened. Smell is the primary sense for most insects and can be extremely acute (some moths can sense a few MOLECULES per square foot), so I think it will be relatively difficult to find a way to trick them in that way.

I'm glad they're trying new things, we're ganna need it along with intelligent usage so we don't end up needlessly wasting away their effective life-spans like we've done with previous pesticides and anti-biotics. Shelf what doesn't work but continue encouraging innovation (which I think the current gene patent situation is probably stifling)

I've got my standard keys, flint, and also has a the same utili-key. I'm pretty sure I've gone through airport security with that thing too

While pesticides, disease and other stresses are certainly "causing" the collapses, more genetic diversity should have solved most of it.

Honeybee breeding has typically been less rigorous than other livestock. Combined with the genetic bottlenecks they've been through with their domestication and spread around the globe, problems were bound to arise eventually.

If enough genetic diversity was present, all of the individual possible problems (even pesticides) causing colony collapse should have been sorted out relatively quickly (especially given that queens mate with multiple males).

Yes, it is a cultural thing, but in a way you're proving his point. In Western society, we are more free to do what WE (the individual) want, we're even encouraged to find a job that we enjoy, not worry so much about what it pays. It goes to show that if people are left to their own devices/feelings/interests, instead of worrying about what will put food on the table (or what papa wants), they will choose to do what they NATURALLY gravitate to. So if there is a natural difference of interest in the sexes, career choice will become MORE pronounced in a wealthy free society, not less

Of course we aren't perfect, but I hope you aren't suggesting that people in Iran or other less than first world countries are somehow better at women's equality

He must have known his tweet was going to offend many people, as well as the many people who retweeted it. Shame on anyone who unnecessarily offends others, but even more shame on people so easily offended. Many stopped following Jesus because they were ''offended,'' and he asked his disciples if they would do the same, so it's pretty clear what his thoughts on the matter were

Smartphone = $$$phone to me. Prepaid phone that can text is all I need.

That is true, they are generally intolerant of anyone who doesn't know what they're doing, and even sometimes when they do.

How about poll dependent? I can see all of these forms being useful depending on the question.

Parent was modded Insightful. I can't handle firepower of that magnitude.

While I know this is an unfortunate event, I have to say that the comments on this thread are the funniest I've read all week.

My opinion is, any good man probably wouldn't have a problem with others finding some amusement about his death, and any bad man does a great service to mankind with post-mortem amusement . Personally I'd want everyone who knew or cared about my death, including my family, to find something funny about it. Or laugh at all the stupid and or funny things I did in life.

He is talking about in this life, as am I. Sure, I hope that God will help me along and I think he is, but it isn't something one can just expect right when you follow a commandment. There's no promise in the bible that if you're a good christian God will make life easy for you, in fact it is mostly the opposite.

Following a religion just because you want reward or fear punishment is silly, and not what God wants.