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“Those Disturbers of My Rest”: The First Treatise on Bedbugs (1730) (publicdomainreview.org)
26 points by pepys on July 1, 2023 | hide | past | favorite | 9 comments



True story: taking low doses of ivermectin for a few weeks will end the reproductive cycle of bedbugs, since the eggs produced are sterile/never hatch. It won't stop the feeding in the meantime , however.


You weren't joking:

> There were significant reductions in C. lectularius population size and fecundity in insects that fed on blood obtained from human study subjects up to 96 hours after they have consumed a single oral dose of ivermectin.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6901371/


Umm, works for scabies too, also an insect infection https://bnf.nice.org.uk/drugs/ivermectin/ Interesting.


As they can survive a long time even without food, it may not be a solution even in theory.


I'm reading this through a smear on my screen which is the result of a spider that crawled across my face.


perfect timing


Mark Rober made a video about bedbugs and methods of fighting them:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2JAOTJxYqh8


What are the conditions required for the letter s in words to be replaced with f (in the document)?


First? Except maybe Pliny in 77AD?




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