The Star is reporting that the Province of Ontario will fund educational and assistance programs for the province with 5 million dollars. Local public health units will be able to apply for funds and the province will fund a public … Continue reading
The group’s Final Report and Recommendations to the Governor and Ohio General Assembly was released today. See The Columbus Dispatch and WLWT Cincinnati for news coverage and to download the report.
For the sake of national bed bug summit completism, I should note what you surely have already heard, that EPA’s Office of Pesticide Programs is hosting another summit this year on February 1-2, 2011. Details and registration here.
A friend of New York vs Bed Bugs has forwarded information about another bed bug event that is scheduled for January 18. Council Member Rosie Mendez and HPD are offering an educational session on January 18. This is the same … Continue reading
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.
Brief notes here.
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
Wilbur A. Sawyer was an American tropical disease specialist. His wife, Margaret, was a bacteriologist who left her own career in medicine when they married. The family was relocating to New York City in the fall of 1924 but Dr. … Continue reading