Over at the Wall Street Journal, there’s a story about an anti-bed bug service that uses out-of-work actors to hunt for bed bugs. Here’s the owner’s justification for employing actors:
Actors have great personalities and follow directions well,” says Janet Friedman, owner of Bed Bug Busters NY, who employs many people from the theater world to clean up the vermin. She favors entertainers, she says, because they can improvise, work quickly and are used to the drama of a stressful situation.
The WSJ has a video interview with Friedman, describing her company:
See Who You Gonna Call? For Bedbugs, an Out-of-Work Actor – WSJ.com.)
For hunting beg bugs, though, I’d put my money on a beagle named Max:
If people in Wisconsin are sleeping tight these days, they might have a dog named Max to thank.
The 22-pound beagle is the latest, and possibly most efficient, way of detecting bed bugs for Wil-Kil Pest Control. The tiny insects have made an unwelcome comeback in the past decade.
That means the phrase “don’t let the bed bugs bite” is less of a children’s rhyme and more of a potential liability issue for hotels, apartments and a possible problem in any situation where people move from place to place….
A 2008 University of Florida study reported that trained dogs were 98 percent successful in finding bed bugs.