Tuesday, September 21, 2010

'Portraits' of the American Bedbug ...

American bedbugs took big bytes/bites of the Express of the Washington Post and the Denver Post end of August, and we thought we'd never see them crawl on front pages again.

It seems though that a buggy invasion is going on, and this September, they've already 'occupied' Indiana, Ohio, Missouri and Tennessee.  This sounds quite cinematic; who knows there may be someone out there around Hollywood crafting a giant bedbug (ala Kingkong) story for a 3-D movie with an itchy-bitchy theme song.

Wondering how Pinoy immigrants (they're not strangers to surot) in America are coping with the social stigma that reportedly ensues from the sight of suspicious bite marks (they may be of mosquitoes) on body parts: they become pariah, they're cut off from guest lists, they can't even be hugged!. 

Ohio bedbug.

Another one from Ohio.


Tennessee bedbug (southerner!)


Indiana bedbugs.


Missouri bedbugs.
  


 Update:    05 November



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