{"id":2860,"date":"2007-04-17T09:56:57","date_gmt":"2007-04-17T09:56:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=2860"},"modified":"2007-04-17T09:56:57","modified_gmt":"2007-04-17T09:56:57","slug":"bedbugs_bounce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=2860","title":{"rendered":"Bedbugs Bounce Back"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/article.cgi?file=\/c\/a\/2007\/04\/08\/MNGIDP4V7K1.DTL\">Meredith May<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>Walter has stopped hugging his friends. He is throwing out his clothes and furniture, and he rarely comes out of his Tenderloin hotel room anymore.<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s not suicidal, but darn near. He has bedbugs.<\/p>\n<p>Nearly eradicated in the United States 50 years ago, resistant strains of &#8220;super&#8221; bedbugs are infesting mattresses at an alarming rate. In what&#8217;s being touted as the biggest mystery in entomology, all 50 states are reporting outbreaks of the blood-sucking nocturnal critters.<\/p>\n<p>Pest control companies nationwide reported a 71 percent increase in bedbug calls between 2000 and 2005. Left alone, a few bedbugs can create a colony of thousands within weeks.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We never treated bedbugs until 2002. Now we have a dedicated bedbug crew working on this every day,&#8221; said Luis Agurto, president of Pestec in San Francisco.<\/p>\n<p>Agurto&#8217;s arsenal includes a vacuum, steam heat to cook the bedbug eggs and targeted spraying of insecticides. It takes three, eight-hour visits and about $500 to $750 to exterminate one room. A whole house would cost closer to $5,000. <\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meredith May: Walter has stopped hugging his friends. He is throwing out his clothes and furniture, and he rarely comes out of his Tenderloin hotel room anymore. He&#8217;s not suicidal, but darn near. He has bedbugs. Nearly eradicated in the United States 50 years ago, resistant strains of &#8220;super&#8221; bedbugs are infesting mattresses at an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2860"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2860"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2860\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}