Warren Booth

So great, in fact, that nobody got around to checking it.

That is until Warren Booth, an entomologist at the Virginia Polytechnic Institute, realized that modern genetic methods had simplified a task that was tricky and expensive in the 1990s.

He reasoned that if bedbugs' resurgence had been caused by insects from around the world sharing resistance genes, then they should have become much more genetically similar to one another by the late 2000s.

As they report in the Journal of Pest Science this month, he and his colleagues tested this hypothesis by analyzing the DNA of bedbugs that had been collected between December 2009 and January 2011.

I was like, damn, man.

'Cause you remember how we used to kinda have, like, uh, panel type episodes? I think one of the first ones we ever did together was with, uh, Warren Booth.

You remember that one?

Mm-hmm.