It’s not just Paris. Bedbugs are resurgent everywhere
Like bacteria, the insects are becoming resistant to the chemicals used to kill them
TO ERNEST HEMINGWAY, Paris was a movable feast. To a bedbug, so are Parisians. In videos on social media, the seats of the city’s metro are seen swarming with bedbugs, tiny insects no bigger than an apple pip, which feed on human blood.
This article appeared in the Science & technology section of the print edition under the headline “Why bedbugs are everywhere”
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