Notes from the Green Truck

Bed bug infestations were a serious problem in the US before the Second World War, and DDT pesticide was used across the country between the 1940s and 1950s to eliminate bed bugs. Thereafter, the population of bed bugs in the US was greatly reduced, but other countries around the world continued to experience bed bug [...]

Bed bugs are oval-shaped non-flying insects from the Cimicidae insect family. Juvenile bed bugs measure about 1.5 mm in length, but they can grow to a size of about 5 to 7 mm when they become adults. The bodies of adult bed bugs are flat and reddish brown in color, and they are often mistaken [...]