Bedbug-Hunting Beagles Are Not Much Help
As we've noted previously, we are all condemned to be eaten alive by bedbugs. (Brooklyn, the Daily News today informs us, seems to suffer particularly, though the bedbug map shows an equivalent concentration in Manhattan.) A city task force has been Bedbugger knows some critters who will eat your bedbugs, but as these are centipedes, masked assassin bugs (which "have a nasty bite of their own") and fire ants, we agree with them that natural predation "isn't a good treatment plan." Your best recourse remains enlightened pest control, which (despite the customary error of omission the Times repeats here) will not include DDT.
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