Bedbugs are coming back with a vengeance, and a new study out of Ohio
State University says that pesticides and insecticides are at least
jointly responsible for spawning a new breed of mutant bedbugs that is
genetically-resistant to the very chemicals commonly used to eradicate
it..

Pesticide resistance is hardly a new phenomenon, as it has
been known for years that genetically-modified (GM) crops and the
pesticides used to cultivate them are responsible for the emergence of
pesticide-resistant “superweeds” (http://www.naturalnews.com/027642_g…). And the same is true for the overuse of antibiotics, which have led to the emergence of antibiotic-resistant “superbugs” (http://www.naturalnews.com/028479_s…).

But
now the scourge of modern chemical interventions has actual bugs to
grow resistant, and made them stronger than ever at evading efforts to
eliminate them.

Published in the journal
PLoS ONE, the study reveals that there is a clear genetic difference between bedbugs exposed to pesticides,
and bedbugs not exposed to pesticides. While they hope to come up with a
way to target the expression of that specific gene in order to prevent
pesticide-resistance, it seems more logical to simply discontinue use of
the offending pesticides.