Paris, the host city of the 2024 Olympics, has a major bedbug infestation in movie theaters, trains, and at Charles-de-Gaulle Airport, reports say.
    • knotthatone@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      9 months ago

      Diatomaceous Earth. It’s a powder of microscopic fossils. It’s a good non-toxic pesticide because it doesn’t use poison but works like microscopic razor blades on bugs and mortally wounds them when they walk over it

      • nyoooom@lemmy.worldEnglish
        18·
        9 months ago

        I have a feeling it probably works like microscopic razor blades in your lungs too

        • knotthatone@lemmy.worldEnglish
          16·
          9 months ago

          It’s not great to breathe in, but neither are chemical pesticides. It doesn’t really get kicked up in the air once it’s applied unless it’s actively disturbed.

          If you’re going to use pesticides, they all come with tradeoffs and different situations you can use them.