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Ladies and Gentlemen, the Bedbugs Have Entered the Building (May/June 2013)

You might recall having your entire epidermis tingle with disgust and/or thrill when you read this month's "The Bedbug: A Bedtime Story," featuring some super closeups of the creatures who love to make your bed their home. In that article, author Rob Dunn suggests that if we let more spiders and ants into our homes, they might kill our bedbugs. Have you ever suffered a bedbug infestation? Would you be willing to let more arachnids and formicidae into your home if it meant fewer bedbugs?

Ants? Yes.  Spiders?  NO WAY.  I won't even touch a book cover that has a spider picture on it.  All those creepy wiggling legs...Brr.

submitted by a.g.
(May 2, 2013 - 11:37 am)

frankly yes, i grew up in a verry smalal gest houce while the mucy larger ( and much nicer) new houce was being built so i am ust to the ocational spider. i have been to hotels where my famaly gets bed bug bites but i have never, mainly because i have a really smelly good luck tailsmen that i bring. my stinky tailsmen is shaped like a cattipiller (hopefully) or a centapied ( not good) so my ancer is afermitive.

submitted by maya H, age sometimes i think i'm 13 still, by sanfransisco, ca
(May 5, 2013 - 11:18 am)

Bedbugs and spiders no way. I'm ok with just ants!!!

submitted by Sadie W., age 10, Los Angeles, CA
(May 5, 2013 - 11:52 am)

Sorry, SORRY, forgot to add my comment before.  All right, here goes *draws deep breath* :

I get up insanely early, sometimes as early as 4 pm, by choice.  I don't know why.  I just enjoy getting up early.  Of course I like to see how late I can stay up, and I love sleepovers as much as the next person, but I do enjoy drifting off to sleep in a nice warm- or refreshingly cool, depending on what season it is- bed.  However, I hate the groggy feeling you get when you wake up late and the sun is streaming in, so I seek to remedy that as much as possible.  Adieu!  :)

submitted by Kai, age should be kept secret, even though few people do.
(May 6, 2013 - 4:16 pm)

Sorry AGAIN, that comment was meant for early birds vs. night owls.  Please disregard it or read it in the context of that discussion, because it makes no sense at all here.

submitted by Kai, age should be kept secret, even though few people do.
(May 6, 2013 - 4:18 pm)

First of all, I have never had my blood sucked by a bedbug. Who would? But in the right circumstances, I might, let ants into my house.

  P.S. muse is the best mag on planet earth through planet Zork ( the center of the galaxies)

Love, from all the zorkians! 

submitted by Ella f., age 10, Dublin, tx
(May 10, 2013 - 8:28 am)

Even if we let ants and spidersinto our houses, it would probably be impossible to get rid of ALL of them. Then, we'd be stuck with a spider and ant infestation.

submitted by Mouse M., age Uggh. Guess my age, I hope you know it by now
(May 26, 2013 - 5:48 pm)

spiders

submitted by girl who doesn't like math, age 12
(June 13, 2013 - 6:57 pm)
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