Infested: How the Bed Bug Infiltrated Our Bedrooms and Took Over the World by Brooke Borel

Author:Brooke Borel [Borel, Brooke]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Science & Math, Biological Sciences, Animals, Insects & Spiders, Biology, Entomology, Nature & Ecology, Natural History, Professional & Technical, Professional Science, Earth Sciences, Sports & Outdoors, Outdoors & Nature
ISBN: 9780226042091
Amazon: B00SLVONF8
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2015-04-08T06:00:00+00:00

SEVEN

Money

The Wild West of the Bed Bug Economy

On the stage of a cavernous ballroom on the fifth floor of the Las Vegas Red Rock Resort, a balding man in a red golf shirt bounced with the excitement of a bulldog puppy as he welcomed the audience to the 2012 BedBug University North American Summit. More than four hundred people had traveled to the conference, which was in its third year, to talk about bed bugs and to network. I had joined them for insight on just how big the bed bug economy had become. A couple hundred of us sat expectantly at long conference tables draped with white linens, our eyes on the man on the stage. There were pest control operators, research entomologists, and representatives of the industries that were carrying the brunt of the bed bug resurgence, including hotels, summer camps, and colleges. The energetic man in red outlined the two-day schedule, which was packed with lectures and socials. Then he introduced one of the summit’s first speakers. Music crackled though the loudspeakers. It was LMFAO’s “Party Rock Anthem.”

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