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Comments :: Researchers: Triangle homes crawling with 'dozens' of bug species

Researchers: Triangle homes crawling with 'dozens' of bug species

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I live in a slab townhouse. As much as I try to keep things tidy, I get palmetto bugs all time in the place. I find palmetto bugs on the walls, in my dishwasher and dead on the floor. These things are totally disgusting and appear to get worse with each year. I wish that summer never existed. At least, in the cooloer months I do not have these tremendous bug issues.

diane7183
June 27, 2012 10:10 a.m.

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The EPA is banning chemicals that were effective, so look for more bugs and other problems we use chemicals for. We should limit the EPA, they are too powerful and they have not been elected to have this power over us.

shotpusher
June 27, 2012 8:41 a.m.

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Moving to NC from NY, I come across new species of bugs and snakes all the time. Before I go stomping and killing, I go online to see if it a pest. If I see a wasp that I know won't bother me and is about as harmless as a bumble bee, I leave it alone.

kellypsnll
June 27, 2012 8:31 a.m.

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i never knew bugs lived anywhere they wanted. thanks for informing us. ... and lets remind everyone how many bugs are actually in their cereal each morning while we're at it.

bombayrunner
June 26, 2012 6:32 p.m.

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Let me guess. Taxpayer money is funding this nonsense.

meeper
June 26, 2012 6:09 p.m.

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How many millions of years have insects been on the earth? How many years have humans been on the earth? Doesn't take a mathmatecian to figure out which species of animal will win this battle. MFS-Agree

Crew Dog E6
June 26, 2012 5:17 p.m.

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of the vermin crawling around the planet, humans are the most detrimental to the entire ecosystem...we just don't like things altering the ecosystem we're trying to build for ourselves...a sanitized, germ-free, immortal existence on a rock of organic matter...it'll take awhile longer, but we will lose this battle.

SlowDecline
June 26, 2012 4:12 p.m.

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"My home is getting an Ortho bath this evening."

--If it comes down to bugs vs toxic chemicals in my house, I'd rather go with the bugs.

Geez Louise
June 26, 2012 3:57 p.m.

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I'm much more afraid of a house full of chemicals, than of bugs I really don't notice. You can call the Orkin man, I'll keep breathing my clean air.