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
Temprid SC got a bed bug label (PDF), see the Bayer press release at PCT.
A National Research Council report (70) on strategies and tactics for pesticide resistance management described insecticide susceptibility as a resource…. Source: Brogdon & McAllister (1998), Insecticide Resistance and Vector Control, EID.
The University of Kentucky announced yesterday that knockdown resistance (kdr-type) mutations, conferring resistance to synthetic pyrethroid pesticides, are widely prevalent in U.S. bed bug populations. The study, forthcoming1 in Archives of Insect Biochemistry and Physiology, finds that one or two … Continue reading
The Environmental Protection Agency has published Ohio Department of Agriculture’s Section 18 exemption request for propoxur in the Federal Register. The public comment period ends on January 21. The docket is EPA-HQ-OPP-2009-0856.
Beyond Pesticides weighs in on Ohio’s propoxur Section 18 request:
Update: Federal Register notice published; public comment period ends January 21, 2010.
Update: the chlorfenapyr study has been published. Curiosity about PestWorld led me to these videos of some of the exhibitors.1 If you are going to watch any of the videos at Pete Grasso’s blog, I really recommend the Cimex video. … Continue reading
Marc Lame of Indiana University thinks that bed bugs will finally move his university to adopt integrated pest management (IPM). His remarks at a monthly ‘Green Drinks’ gathering in Bloomington are quoted in this Indiana Daily Student story:
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