Bed bug lecture by Dr. Jody Gangloff-Kaufmann
The University of Maryland’s Home and Garden Information Center has posted three videos of a bed bug lecture by Dr. Jody Gangloff-Kaufmann of the NYS IPM Program.
Month: January 2010
Detecting bed bugs using bed bug monitors, Rutgers Cooperative Extension
Dr. Changlu Wang has produced a new fact sheet, FS1117 – Detecting Bed Bugs Using Bed Bug Monitors (free PDF download), detailing step-by-step instructions to make and use the dry ice trap developed by Rutgers University (see the ScienceNews story … Continue reading
“We need to be aware and alert and the city needs to respond”
In the Columbia Spectator today, Bedbugs spread, residents criticize city’s inaction:
Bed bug treatment specs from ONPHA
The Ontario Non-Profit Housing Association has posted bed bug management specifications which were developed in collaboration with hsi solutions. This is a great communication and education tool for their residents and property managers — but there’s also generosity at play … Continue reading
Once upon a time, a national resource
A National Research Council report (70) on strategies and tactics for pesticide resistance management described insecticide susceptibility as a resource…. Source: Brogdon & McAllister (1998), Insecticide Resistance and Vector Control, EID.
Are you really unaware of fumigation as an option?
This Dow case study—Getting Beyond Bed Bugs, PCT—proposes just that: Both [Bed Bugs and Beyond president Michael] Batenburg and [Global Pest Control general manager Kery] Bruzzo agree that the public and many pest control professionals are simply not aware about … Continue reading
Carolyn Klass in The New Yorker, “The Bedbug Decider”
Ms. Klass has retired according to the Talk of the Town piece. How many of us can relate to this?
“so convenient, so safe because the DDT is fixed to the paper”
Boing Boing has a picture of a “Disney-logoed DDT-impregnated wallpaper for the kids’ room” c. 1947. No. words. Enjoy.
An evening of bed bugs, cont’d
Lou Sorkin began his lecture at last week’s special meeting of the New York Entomological Society by recounting a few choice tales of insect gourmandism—like the one about the tarantula tempura served at one of The Explorers Club’s annual banquets. … Continue reading
kdr pyrethroid resistance widespread in U.S. bed bug populations
The University of Kentucky announced yesterday that knockdown resistance (kdr-type) mutations, conferring resistance to synthetic pyrethroid pesticides, are widely prevalent in U.S. bed bug populations. The study, forthcoming1 in Archives of Insect Biochemistry and Physiology, finds that one or two … Continue reading