If you discover that you have a bedbug problem, it is not likely that you will make an announcement. Folks in the US tend to attach a stigma to the possession of parasites. You can hardly get most people to admit that their pets have fleas, because it just is not the sort of thing that the average person wants other people to know.

So, now one has got to wonder, why do bedbugs keep popping up in the news? There must be more than a few and not just in a couple of hotel rooms. Sooner or later guests go home and sleep in their own beds. Bedbugs can get into night clothes and into dirty laundry in luggage, and when a guest leaves, these parasites go along for the ride. A new mattress did not come complete with bedbugs when the room was furnished. Most likely they arrived with a traveler in much the same manner that some of them will depart.

Like it or not, bedbugs are here, and they are populating. Some treatments will no doubt make the problem worse. Just look all the things that have been used in efforts to combat fleas over the last fifty to sixty years. Just read my article, GOT FLEAS? Fleas are more problematic than ever, yet there are more treatments. Plenty of fleas equates to plenty of repeat sales. Ah, a chemical company's dream has come true!

Are we destined for a similar scenario with bedbugs? Does the earth really need more toxins? Will hearts and livers tolerate the poisons?

Taking a common sense approach to flea control works to keep my two cats flea-free in Florida, so I don't expect to need a chemical fix to combat bedbugs. To the rest of the world, my advice is: Arm yourselves with some common sense knowledge regarding how to keep bedbugs off, before these nasty little bugs come to a mattress near you.