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:
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).
Another year, another Entomological Society of America meeting to think about.
Remember BASF’s bed bug prevention pitch?
So there was that hotel stay in 1907—the attack, to use his word.
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