It comes amid fears that an infestation of 'super-bedbugs' in Paris will sweep through the UK, with hotels and transport operators already on red alert, after the critters were spotted on the London Underground.
A shocking map has revealed the UK's worst areas for bed bugs. READ MORE:In the last month, reports of bed bugs have exploded, with social media crawling with photos and videos of the blood-sucking insects.Using Google search data, researchers from Merlin Environmental worked out which areas of the UK have the biggest bed bug problems compared with the population size.
Following in Paris' footsteps, London now seems to have been caught up in the bed bug boom with footage surfacing of the blood-suckers on the underground and buses The analysis revealed that London had the highest amount of searches per capita with 266,400 searches, equivalent to 2.97 per cent of the population Googling bed bugs.
While a plague of blood-sucking insects might sound too grim to be true, the situation in the UK is a growing public health issue. Dr Richard Naylor, an etymologist from the Bed Bug Foundation, told MailOnline that the recent spread of bed bugs was due to several different factors. Only the Covid-19 pandemic could briefly knock bed bug numbers back down as travel restrictions limited their spread.
Bed bugs' entire life cycle is very temperature dependent, meaning the warmer it is the faster they spread. Pest control now uses chemicals called pyrethroids to treat infections, however, bed bugs have become highly resistant to these chemicals.
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