The proceedings of ICUP Budapest are now online

We can now see the papers presented at the Sixth International Conference on Urban Pests (Budapest, 2008), including the one I most wanted to read, the (S)-methoprene article.

Enjoy.

Laboratory and Field Evaluation of Deltamethrin and Bendiocarb To Control Cimex Lectularius (Heteroptera: Cimicidae) (PDF)
Joe Barile, Ralf Nauen, Guenther Nentwig, Reiner Pospischil and Byron Reid

Efficacy of Seven Commercial Pest Control Products against Cimex Lectularius (Hemiptera: Cimicidae) (PDF)
Kate L. Turner and Andrew J. Brigham

Efficacy of (s)-Methoprene against Cimex Lectularius (Hemiptera: Cimicidae) (PDF)
Richard Naylor, Daniel Bajomi and Clive Boase:

The results presented above clearly show that (S)-methoprene exhibits classical JHA activity against bed bugs. The overall impacts on mortality, morphology, ecdysis and fecundity are comparable with those seen with other hemimetabolous insects such as cockroaches (Das and Gupta, 1974; King and Bennett, 1988). In particular, at the doses evaluated here, (S)-methoprene has relatively little impact when applied to adult bugs, but has very significant impact on the development of nymphal bed bugs.

Bed Bug (Hemiptera: Cimicidae) Response To Fumigation Using Sulfuryl Fluoride (PDF)
Dini M. Miller and Marc L. Fisher

Update – missed the workshop papers:

Bed Bug Problems in Denmark, with a European Perspective (PDF)
Ole Kilpinen, Karl-martin Vagn Jensen, and Michael Kristensen

Battling Bed Bugs in the USA (PDF)
Michael F. Potter, Alvaro Romero and Kenneth F. Haynes

The Resurgence of Bed Bugs, Cimex spp. (Hemiptera: Cimicidae) in Australia (PDF)
Stephen L. Doggett and Richard C. Russell

These pages may be of related interest:

  1. Bite sensitivity, ciao Johnson, post-feeding behavior, signals and more: ESA meeting abstracts
  2. Articles from the Summer 2006 issue of AE
  3. One more ICUP paper
  4. Across the hall
  5. New study of bed bug bites suggests most people do react

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