ESA 2010: bed bugs and politics? But wait, Lou, Metarhizium anisopliae, dispersal…
Another year, another Entomological Society of America meeting to think about.
Tag: dispersal
Laundry and the motivating power of the bed bug web: Q&A with Richard Naylor
First, the study. Naylor, R. A., and C. J. Boase. 2010. Practical Solutions for Treating Laundry Infested With Cimex lectularius (Hemiptera: Cimicidae). Journal of Economic Entomology 103 (February): 136-139. doi:10.1603/EC09288.
The active spread of bed bugs in buildings: the stakes for cities
A new article in the Journal of Economic Entomology should have important implications for policy making—if we are smart enough as a society to appreciate the stakes.
The wandering females
Pfiester, Margie; Koehler, Philip G.; Pereira, Roberto M. (2009) Effect of Population Structure and Size on Aggregation Behavior of Cimex lectularius (Hemiptera: Cimicidae) Journal of Medical Entomology 46(5):1015-1020. doi: 10.1603/033.046.0506 (free download available)
Baited pitfall traps for bed bugs
Wang, Changlu; Gibb, Timothy; Bennett, Gary W.; Mcknight, Susan (2009) Bed Bug (Heteroptera: Cimicidae) Attraction to Pitfall Traps Baited With Carbon Dioxide, Heat, and Chemical Lure Journal of Economic Entomology, 102:4, 1580-1585. (free PDF download)
“The bldg is unable to get it under control”
This is the problem that we have to solve in our city.
Active dispersal, baby
It’s always about bed bug sex, but check this out, a new focus for a bed bug researcher. Well, new to me.
Across the hall
We don’t get very many good descriptions or sustained discussion, much less diagrams, of the spread of bed bugs within buildings. Here are two discussions and, in one of the papers, a diagram, a diagram you could make a flip … Continue reading
Walking bed bugs
The active dispersal of bed bugs. Continue reading
Where does it say…? 6 essential documents to survive an argument about bed bug dispersal
8 references on the spread of bed bugs to adjacent apartments and floors. Continue reading