I have been getting bug bites all over my legs/arms in my house?
Q. It mainly happens when I am in my spare bedroom. It is very painful and I can not see the bugs. I sprayed the carpet all over with flea spray and it does not work. What do I do?
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A. What are bed bugs? What do bed bugs look like?
Bed bugs are small, oval, nonflying insects that belong to the insect family Cimicidae, which includes three species that bite people. Adult bed bugs reach 5-7 mm in length, while nymphs (juveniles) are as small as 1.5 mm. Bed bugs have flat bodies and may sometimes be mistaken for ticks or small cockroaches. Bed bugs feed by sucking blood from humans or animals. Adult bed bugs are reddish brown in color, appearing more reddish after feeding on a blood meal. Nymphs are clear in color and appear bright red after feeding. The wings of bed bugs are vestigial, so they cannot fly.
Where are bed bugs found?
Bed bugs were common in the U.S. before World War II and became rare after widespread use of the pesticide DDT began in the 1940s and 1950s. They remained prevalent in other areas of the world and, in recent years, have been increasingly observed again in the U.S. Increases in immigration and travel from the developing world as well as restrictions on the use of stronger pesticides may be factors that have led to the relatively recent increase in bed bug infestations. While bed bugs are often reported to be found when sanitation conditions are poor or when birds or mammals (particularly bats) are nesting on or near a home, bed bugs can also live and thrive in clean environments. Crowded living quarters also facilitate the spread of bed bugs.
Bed bugs can live in any area of the home and can reside in tiny cracks in furniture as well as on textiles and upholstered furniture. They tend to be most common in areas where people sleep and generally concentrate in beds, including mattresses, box springs, and bed frames. Other sites where bed bugs often reside include curtains, the corners inside dressers and other furniture, cracks in wallpaper (particularly near the bed), and inside the spaces of wicker furniture.
Since bed bugs can live for months without feeding, they can also be found in vacant homes.
I just found a bed bug on my sofa. I started getting what I thought were mosquito bites in January. My kids and I were covered in bites. They look and feel just like mosquito bites, so I really didn't even think that it could be bed bugs. I did find a mosquito in my living room last week and I was able to kill it. So I thought all the bites were over. Well, they weren't. I looked up on line info on bed bugs and I checked all my furniture and beds and I didn't see a thing. So I thought maybe it's another mosquito. It wasn’t a mosquito. I think I know where they came from too. I have been living here for 5 yrs and never had any problems with bugs. My step son comes over every other weekend and he was complaining of "spider" bites he was getting at home. This was after he got a new bed, which I think his mom got as a hand me down. I bet that is where they came from. I am so freaking upset. They just gross me out.
Bed bugs are small, oval, nonflying insects that belong to the insect family Cimicidae, which includes three species that bite people. Adult bed bugs reach 5-7 mm in length, while nymphs (juveniles) are as small as 1.5 mm. Bed bugs have flat bodies and may sometimes be mistaken for ticks or small cockroaches. Bed bugs feed by sucking blood from humans or animals. Adult bed bugs are reddish brown in color, appearing more reddish after feeding on a blood meal. Nymphs are clear in color and appear bright red after feeding. The wings of bed bugs are vestigial, so they cannot fly.
Where are bed bugs found?
Bed bugs were common in the U.S. before World War II and became rare after widespread use of the pesticide DDT began in the 1940s and 1950s. They remained prevalent in other areas of the world and, in recent years, have been increasingly observed again in the U.S. Increases in immigration and travel from the developing world as well as restrictions on the use of stronger pesticides may be factors that have led to the relatively recent increase in bed bug infestations. While bed bugs are often reported to be found when sanitation conditions are poor or when birds or mammals (particularly bats) are nesting on or near a home, bed bugs can also live and thrive in clean environments. Crowded living quarters also facilitate the spread of bed bugs.
Bed bugs can live in any area of the home and can reside in tiny cracks in furniture as well as on textiles and upholstered furniture. They tend to be most common in areas where people sleep and generally concentrate in beds, including mattresses, box springs, and bed frames. Other sites where bed bugs often reside include curtains, the corners inside dressers and other furniture, cracks in wallpaper (particularly near the bed), and inside the spaces of wicker furniture.
Since bed bugs can live for months without feeding, they can also be found in vacant homes.
I just found a bed bug on my sofa. I started getting what I thought were mosquito bites in January. My kids and I were covered in bites. They look and feel just like mosquito bites, so I really didn't even think that it could be bed bugs. I did find a mosquito in my living room last week and I was able to kill it. So I thought all the bites were over. Well, they weren't. I looked up on line info on bed bugs and I checked all my furniture and beds and I didn't see a thing. So I thought maybe it's another mosquito. It wasn’t a mosquito. I think I know where they came from too. I have been living here for 5 yrs and never had any problems with bugs. My step son comes over every other weekend and he was complaining of "spider" bites he was getting at home. This was after he got a new bed, which I think his mom got as a hand me down. I bet that is where they came from. I am so freaking upset. They just gross me out.
why do women try to make men monogamous? really, relationships shouldnt exist?
Q. Please dont tell me I am young or bitter. Im not.
I study psychology/anthropology/evolution and there are so many scientific studies that point out that its hard for men to be monogamous.
I know women cheat just as much as men, depending on which study you examine, but it seems women cheat when someone is missing from a relationship (sex, attention, emotional support) and men can do it for the same reasons, but more often it boils down to the fact that:
-women are satisfied with one person for the rest of their life as long as they spice things up in the bedroom from time to time
-men are satisfied with multiple partners. spicing things up with one partner helps...but it doesnt stop them from wanting to **** other women
Men were put on this earth to procreate. They evalute the sexual attractiveness of every woman they look at. Men fanatasize about ******* 1 out of 5 women they meet on average. It is normal human behavior for men to think about ******* all your semi attractive friends. No matter how wonderful their partner is, they cannot help their urges and men struggle remaining monogamous more than women do on average.
It really saddens me. I am a "hopeless romantic" though I havent had good luck in dating thus far, but I know if I do find a great guy and get married...after a few years he will grow bored of me and have to fight off the urges to cheat/constantly fantasize about other women. I kind of feel men are just TOO animalistic for me and will never be able to be a "hopeless romantic" like me so I dont see the point of investing in long term relationships anymore.
I study psychology/anthropology/evolution and there are so many scientific studies that point out that its hard for men to be monogamous.
I know women cheat just as much as men, depending on which study you examine, but it seems women cheat when someone is missing from a relationship (sex, attention, emotional support) and men can do it for the same reasons, but more often it boils down to the fact that:
-women are satisfied with one person for the rest of their life as long as they spice things up in the bedroom from time to time
-men are satisfied with multiple partners. spicing things up with one partner helps...but it doesnt stop them from wanting to **** other women
Men were put on this earth to procreate. They evalute the sexual attractiveness of every woman they look at. Men fanatasize about ******* 1 out of 5 women they meet on average. It is normal human behavior for men to think about ******* all your semi attractive friends. No matter how wonderful their partner is, they cannot help their urges and men struggle remaining monogamous more than women do on average.
It really saddens me. I am a "hopeless romantic" though I havent had good luck in dating thus far, but I know if I do find a great guy and get married...after a few years he will grow bored of me and have to fight off the urges to cheat/constantly fantasize about other women. I kind of feel men are just TOO animalistic for me and will never be able to be a "hopeless romantic" like me so I dont see the point of investing in long term relationships anymore.
A. You should understand that it's the difference in physiology that causes these issues. Women tend to be nurturing and want to "nest," and plus the fact they are the only ones capable of having children, which is a hell of a lot of hard work. Encouraging two parents to stick together and raise kids makes it more likely that they'll be able to grow up and then continue the species when they have kids. It's a biological imperative that makes survival more likely.
Men basically are in the "always on" position when it comes to sex and absent disqualifying factors they'd want almost any woman if she's available. So, one way women attract men to settle down with them is that, in effect, in exchange for providing for her and their offspring, he can have unlimited sex with her any time he wants. He doesn't have to keep trying to find some woman to mate with, he has one he can have on an unlimited basis. Thus he gets all the sex he wants and she gets a provider that makes it more likely her kids will survive long enough to grow up.
At least that's how it was when women had low chances of making their own living, didn't have access to contraception and had to depend upon a man for survival. Plus the laws often made it a crime to have sex if you weren't married - laws routinely ignored - and this added to the incentives for getting married.
With the ability of a woman through contraception - without requiring her partner to do anything - to totally control her breeding cycle while still having sex, and with the social mores making it acceptable to be in a relationship with someone without being married, or it being acceptable for a woman to have multiple partners, and the liberalization of divorce, the requirement for long term relationships is less than it was in the past. It also means that it's easier to get women into bed than it used to be, thus the "premium" or advantage for a man for being married is less than it was.
This is actually generational. Go back hundreds if not thousands of years and there is a shift in sexual attitudes about every 20 years or so. There is a closed period where it's much more difficult to get free love and sex without marriage, marriage are much more common, and so on. That becomes too stifling and over about 20 years people tend to swing the other direction to more free sex and less need for relationships. This becomes too open as people start wanting the benefits of a long-term relationship again and over about 20 years people tend to swing back the other way to more relationships and marriages being more popular again. The 1920s-1940s were open. The 1940s-1960s were closed. The 1960s-1980s were open (actually it was about 1963 to 1985). Then for roughly 20 years it was closed. Then about the middle of the 2000s it became open again, and should remain that way until sometime in the 2020s.
Note that "closed" or "open" are generalizations; even when casual sex is severely frowned upon there are women who are interested in one-night-stands as much as there are women even during periods of sexual openness who still insist on marriage before sex.
So right now relationships are not as in favor as they were about 10-15 years ago or how they will be 10-15 years from now.
Men basically are in the "always on" position when it comes to sex and absent disqualifying factors they'd want almost any woman if she's available. So, one way women attract men to settle down with them is that, in effect, in exchange for providing for her and their offspring, he can have unlimited sex with her any time he wants. He doesn't have to keep trying to find some woman to mate with, he has one he can have on an unlimited basis. Thus he gets all the sex he wants and she gets a provider that makes it more likely her kids will survive long enough to grow up.
At least that's how it was when women had low chances of making their own living, didn't have access to contraception and had to depend upon a man for survival. Plus the laws often made it a crime to have sex if you weren't married - laws routinely ignored - and this added to the incentives for getting married.
With the ability of a woman through contraception - without requiring her partner to do anything - to totally control her breeding cycle while still having sex, and with the social mores making it acceptable to be in a relationship with someone without being married, or it being acceptable for a woman to have multiple partners, and the liberalization of divorce, the requirement for long term relationships is less than it was in the past. It also means that it's easier to get women into bed than it used to be, thus the "premium" or advantage for a man for being married is less than it was.
This is actually generational. Go back hundreds if not thousands of years and there is a shift in sexual attitudes about every 20 years or so. There is a closed period where it's much more difficult to get free love and sex without marriage, marriage are much more common, and so on. That becomes too stifling and over about 20 years people tend to swing the other direction to more free sex and less need for relationships. This becomes too open as people start wanting the benefits of a long-term relationship again and over about 20 years people tend to swing back the other way to more relationships and marriages being more popular again. The 1920s-1940s were open. The 1940s-1960s were closed. The 1960s-1980s were open (actually it was about 1963 to 1985). Then for roughly 20 years it was closed. Then about the middle of the 2000s it became open again, and should remain that way until sometime in the 2020s.
Note that "closed" or "open" are generalizations; even when casual sex is severely frowned upon there are women who are interested in one-night-stands as much as there are women even during periods of sexual openness who still insist on marriage before sex.
So right now relationships are not as in favor as they were about 10-15 years ago or how they will be 10-15 years from now.
Holocaust literature, any suggestions?
Q. I've already read Behind the Bedroom Wall, Night, The Diary of Ann Frank, Mila 18, and some others. I'm really interested in anything from the nazi perspective (it's interesting to see the different sides), preferably historical fiction, but non-fiction is okay too. Reading levels aren't really an issue, I'd just like some more insight into the times. Suggestions? Thanks in advance ^-^.
A. "The Boy in the Striped Pajamas" by John Boyne
http://www.amazon.com/Boy-Striped-Pajamas-John-Boyne/dp/0385751532/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1217561951&sr=1-1
"Starred Review. Grade 9 Up–Boyne has written a sort of historical allegory–a spare, but vividly descriptive tale that clearly elucidates the atmosphere in Nazi Germany during the early 1940s that enabled the persecution of Eastern European Jews. Through the eyes of Bruno, a naive nine-year-old raised in a privileged household by strict parents whose expectations included good manners and unquestioning respect for parental authority, the author describes a visit from the Fury and the familys sudden move from Berlin to a place called Out-With in Poland. There, not 50 feet away, a high wire fence surrounds a huge dirt area of low huts and large square buildings. From his bedroom window, Bruno can see hundreds (maybe thousands) of people wearing striped pajamas and caps, and something made him feel very cold and unsafe. Uncertain of what his father actually does for a living, the boy is eager to discover the secret of the people on the other side. He follows the fence into the distance, where he meets Shmuel, a skinny, sad-looking Jewish resident who, amazingly, has his same birth date. Bruno shares his thoughts and feelings with Shmuel, some of his food, and his final day at Out-With, knowing instinctively that his father must never learn about this friendship. While only hinting at violence, blind hatred, and deplorable conditions, Boyne has included pointed examples of bullying and fearfulness. His combination of strong characterization and simple, honest narrative make this powerful and memorable tale a unique addition to Holocaust literature for those who already have some knowledge of Hitlers Final Solution."
"The Book Thief" by Markus Zusak
http://www.amazon.com/Book-Thief-Readers-Circle/dp/0375842209/ref=pd_bxgy_b_img_b
"Zusak has created a work that deserves the attention of sophisticated teen and adult readers. Death himself narrates the World War II-era story of Liesel Meminger from the time she is taken, at age nine, to live in Molching, Germany, with a foster family in a working-class neighborhood of tough kids, acid-tongued mothers, and loving fathers who earn their living by the work of their hands. The child arrives having just stolen her first book–although she has not yet learned how to read–and her foster father uses it, The Gravediggers Handbook, to lull her to sleep when shes roused by regular nightmares about her younger brothers death. Across the ensuing years of the late 1930s and into the 1940s, Liesel collects more stolen books as well as a peculiar set of friends: the boy Rudy, the Jewish refugee Max, the mayors reclusive wife (who has a whole library from which she allows Liesel to steal), and especially her foster parents."
http://www.amazon.com/Boy-Striped-Pajamas-John-Boyne/dp/0385751532/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1217561951&sr=1-1
"Starred Review. Grade 9 Up–Boyne has written a sort of historical allegory–a spare, but vividly descriptive tale that clearly elucidates the atmosphere in Nazi Germany during the early 1940s that enabled the persecution of Eastern European Jews. Through the eyes of Bruno, a naive nine-year-old raised in a privileged household by strict parents whose expectations included good manners and unquestioning respect for parental authority, the author describes a visit from the Fury and the familys sudden move from Berlin to a place called Out-With in Poland. There, not 50 feet away, a high wire fence surrounds a huge dirt area of low huts and large square buildings. From his bedroom window, Bruno can see hundreds (maybe thousands) of people wearing striped pajamas and caps, and something made him feel very cold and unsafe. Uncertain of what his father actually does for a living, the boy is eager to discover the secret of the people on the other side. He follows the fence into the distance, where he meets Shmuel, a skinny, sad-looking Jewish resident who, amazingly, has his same birth date. Bruno shares his thoughts and feelings with Shmuel, some of his food, and his final day at Out-With, knowing instinctively that his father must never learn about this friendship. While only hinting at violence, blind hatred, and deplorable conditions, Boyne has included pointed examples of bullying and fearfulness. His combination of strong characterization and simple, honest narrative make this powerful and memorable tale a unique addition to Holocaust literature for those who already have some knowledge of Hitlers Final Solution."
"The Book Thief" by Markus Zusak
http://www.amazon.com/Book-Thief-Readers-Circle/dp/0375842209/ref=pd_bxgy_b_img_b
"Zusak has created a work that deserves the attention of sophisticated teen and adult readers. Death himself narrates the World War II-era story of Liesel Meminger from the time she is taken, at age nine, to live in Molching, Germany, with a foster family in a working-class neighborhood of tough kids, acid-tongued mothers, and loving fathers who earn their living by the work of their hands. The child arrives having just stolen her first book–although she has not yet learned how to read–and her foster father uses it, The Gravediggers Handbook, to lull her to sleep when shes roused by regular nightmares about her younger brothers death. Across the ensuing years of the late 1930s and into the 1940s, Liesel collects more stolen books as well as a peculiar set of friends: the boy Rudy, the Jewish refugee Max, the mayors reclusive wife (who has a whole library from which she allows Liesel to steal), and especially her foster parents."
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