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
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.
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. Wang, C., K. Saltzmann, E. Chin, G. W. Bennett, T. Gibb. 2010. Characteristics … Continue reading
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)
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)
This is the problem that we have to solve in our city. That is the whole game. Let me remind you of the necessary approach, as described by Lou Sorkin not too long ago:
It’s always about bed bug sex, but check this out, a new focus for a bed bug researcher. Well, new to me. I’m smiling because it’s as if the research gods have answered my prayers.
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
The active dispersal of bed bugs. Continue reading
8 references on the spread of bed bugs to adjacent apartments and floors. Continue reading