“Bed bugs are pest No. 1 in the Western world right now,” declared pest control expert Brett Johnson on Canadian television. Like their American counterparts, Canadian pest control companies are fighting bed bugs in apartments, hotels, homes, day care centers, even movie theaters!

“I was getting 12 to 20 bits a night. Yeah. Go to sleep with that thought. You just don’t sleep,” said Vancouver apartment dweller Melody Seiling. Her mattress is smeared with bloody spots where the tiny, blood-sucking insects have been crushed when she tosses and turns at night trying to sleep. “A day doesn’t go by where we don’t hear from somebody who has a bug infestation in their apartment,” said Chris Anderson of Vancouver’s Tenants Rights Action Coalition.

Increased incidents of bed bug infestations are a worldwide phenomenon, though perhaps more noticeable in western countries like the US and Canada where powerful pesticides all but wiped out the little buggers in the years following World War II. The ancient scourge has continuously plagued many European, Middle Eastern and Asian countries for centuries. Increased international travel and the discontinuation of power pesticides like DDT are blamed for the return of the obnoxious pests.

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