Romero, Alvaro, Michael F Potter, and Kenneth F Haynes. 2010. Circadian rhythm of spontaneous locomotor activity in the bed bug, Cimex lectularius L. Journal of Insect Physiology 56: 1516-1522. doi:10.1016/j.jinsphys.2010.04.025.
Elsewhere, Mellanby describes more closely these Demon cockroach traps, which he also used to trap cockroaches in the rat room to study their periodic activity: These traps are circular, 22 cms in diameter at the base, with sides sloping gradually … Continue reading
Despite its disobliging disposition, the bed bug must eventually give up its secrets to researchers. This process is slow and apparently fraught with failure, but what is being learned is there for us to read and understand if only we … Continue reading
“the olfactory perception of the bed bug seems to be much narrower than other vectors” Continue reading
This is really very interesting. And it’s also that wonderful, rare thing: a free article. Mankin, R. W., R. D. Hodges, H. T. Nagle, C. Schal, R. M. Pereira, and P. G. Koehler. 2010. Acoustic Indicators for Targeted Detection of … Continue reading
Take a look at the very interesting Federal Bed Bug Work Group’s Bed Bug References and Information Sources (PDF). One feels like shooting Dr. Feldlaufer, or whoever keeps this list, a friendly email. Then again, the word volunteer appears twice … Continue reading
Another year, another Entomological Society of America meeting to think about. In a section titled “Bed Bugs, People, and Politics,” Harold Harlan, Michael Potter, Stephen Kells, Susan Jones, Lou Sorkin, Mark Sheperdigian, Changlu Wang, and Dini Miller will… I’m not … Continue reading
Remember BASF’s bed bug prevention pitch? The research is out and worth a close reading, not only because it is the anticipated report on the effectiveness of old dry residues of chlorfenapyr against bed bugs, a subject that sets off … Continue reading
So there was that hotel stay in 1907—the attack, to use his word. But two years earlier Girault had published a major article about bed bugs followed by an extensive critical bibliography, likely the entire literature of bed bugs until … Continue reading
The results of the bed bug bite survey we heard so much about are reported in this new article, The Sensitivity Spectrum: Human Reactions to Bed Bug Bites (PCT February 2010, Michael F. Potter, Kenneth F. Haynes, Kevin Connelly, Michael … Continue reading