Ddt was great at what it did. I never even heard of bedbugs in the first 30 years of my life because they were almost completely eradicated and only 30 years after it was banned started to make a comeback. Now my city has destroyed and rebuilt every library because of them but you'd have to be an idiot to check out a book because they came right back.

Why was ddt banned? Not because it is a possible carcinogen, like the neonicitinoids we used to replace it and the plastics we use to hold everything we consume. It was banned because as a bioaccumulative it weakened the eggs of birds of prey.

Birds of prey are back too, and becoming a serious problem. Nobody wants to see eagles disappear completely, but recently in the last few years hawks became so ubiquitous that i cannot drive a mile whithout seeing a redtailed hawk. Why is that a problem? Because big birds take off slowly. Fast enough to get above a car at speed, not so much big trucks. I've had 3 hit my semi's window this last year alone.

So why not kill two birds and get stoned? Make a bunch of that stuff and use it everywhere but only once. Knock out the bedbugs so completely they take another 30 years to make a comeback. Thin the big birds but not eradicate them.

What could go wrong?