Sorry, bed bugs, we can't return your love

Dear Bed Bugs, On behalf of humans everywhere, I'd like to take this opportunity to recognize your amazing love for us.

- Melvin Durai

I did not realize the depth of your love until I read about a research study at Virginia Tech University in the US that indicated that you have been attached to us for about 245,000 years even longer than we humans have been attached to booze. Back then, we lived in caves and did not have beds and couches, so you were just “floor bugs” to us. You had previously lived on bats, another cave-dwelling creature, and decided that we would make better hosts. This was a brilliant choice. Bats would not have taken you to as many places as we did: ships, apartment buildings, cheap motels. You flew on Turkish Airlines, British Airways and a number of other airlines. You even flew first class, something you could have never imagined when you left a cave on the hairy back of a Neanderthal.