2011 Bed Bug Summit

In three days the second Bed Bug Summit is being offered by the US Environmental Protection Agency in Washington DC. Pending snow and ice predicted for my area those days, I plan to be there. I attended the last summit a few years back and found it to be extremely interesting, and as the months and years went by and the ideas that were born at this summit grew, productive. The last Summit was about ideas, a national brainstorming if you will, but this one I hope is a Summit about solutions. We have protocol and procedure in place. We know about the chemical resistance and crazy genes these bugs have. We know about the research and we know about the turmoil these bugs are bringing to cities across the country. Now it is time for action. The government needs to understand we need solutions. We need a relaxing of the rules if you will to introduce effective chemicals to the market. We need research dollars. We need answers.