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Bedbugs. Few words reach such fear in the brains of travelers. In places across the world, lurking beneath the plush blankets of otherwise pristine-looking hotel bedrooms, are little, bloodthirsty beasts just waiting for weary wanderers to surrender to prone slumber. Though bedbugs today have infested the world, the normal bedbug is not a new pest in any way. Indeed, as Brooke Borel shows in this unconventional history, this most-reviled types may date again over 250,000 years, wreaking havoc on our collective psyche while even uplifting art, books, and music - in addition to vexatious red welts. In Infested, Borel introduces followers to the natural and ethnical histories of the amazingly adaptive insects and the myriad ways that humans have responded to them. She vacations to meet with researchers who are rearing bedbug colonies - even by feeding them with their own blood (ouch!) - also to the phases of musicals performed in honor of the pests. She explores the history of bedbugs and their noticeable disappearance in the 1950s following the introduction of DDT, charting how current infestations have flourished in immediate response to human being chemical substance use as well as the simple global travel. She also introduces us to the economics of bedbug infestations, from hotels to homes to office complexes, and the expansive industry that has arisen to beat them. Hiding throughout the day in the nooks and seams of mattresses, box springs, bed structures, headboards, dresser dining tables, wallpaper, or any muddle around a bed, bed pests are growing and looking forward to their next victim. By providing fascinating details on bedbug technology and behavior and a captivating check out the lives of those devoted to researching or eradicating them, Infested is sure to encourage at least a nibble of value for these tenacious animals - while also making certain you will peek beneath the mattress sheets with prickly apprehension.
