Pestiferous Origins
Early Exterminators
Bed Bugs 1800s
Bed Bugs 1900s
Bed Bug Insectisides
100
How long have bed bugs been biting us?
Since the beginning of time.
100
Name a company that formed a business exterminating bed bugs
Tiffin and Son.
100
Hotels and what else were especially "buggy"?
Boarding Houses.
100
Why did bed bugs gain such a reproductive boost.
Central Heating
100
What was popularly known as "Bed Bug Poison"?
Mercury Chloride
200
What made it easier for bed bug infestations to establish?
Formation of cities.
200
Who published the first work on bed bugs?
John Southall
200
What was the greatest remedy said in the 1800s ?
Cleanliness
200
In the 1930s and 40s what estimation of major city dwellings had bed bugs? 1/4 - 2/3 - 1/3
1/3
200
What did Fumigants become to be known as? (what method)
Fire and Brimstone Method
300
When did bed bugs become common in England?
The 17th and 18th centuries.
300
What was the slogan of Tiffin and Son?
Bug-Destroyers To Her Majesty.
300
What was a way of remedy for bed bugs.
Vigilance
300
What was hydrogen cyanide used for?
Fumigating
300
What was the gold standard for the beginning of the twentieth century?
Hydrocyanic acid
400
How did bed bugs get to America?
Ships.
400
What would Southall ask to simplify inspection and treatment? (Name one)
Plain, easy to disassemble, free from woodwork.
400
Why did bed bugs become an issue in poor overcrowded areas?
Low standards of hygiene.
400
What was the Glasgow system?
An approach to preventing dissemination
400
What measures had to be done post fumigation to the building?
Beating pillows, mattresses, bedding, along with airing out the house.
500
What is the Ancient Rome meaning of "Cimex"?
Bug
500
Extreme advice for killing bed bugs in the 18th century came from what book.
The Compleat Vermin Killer
500
Why were Hotels so buggy, what was the the most likely cause?
Carrying trunks from place to place.
500
Which chemical became a cheaper safer way of killing bed bugs in military quarters?
DDT
500
What chemical usually did the job in one application?
DDT
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