I think a new pheromone-laced bed bug trap is promising—anything that could help people suffering from an infestation is a good thing. It’s also cheap, which is a plus.

These are known as “volatile” components, and they are what attracts bed bugs of all stages of development. The histamine is what makes the bugs stay in the trap.

Bed bugs might not sicken us though their cooties, but they might be making us ill though the histamine they poop out into our homes.

The researchers found that histamine levels in infested homes were at least 20-times higher than levels in bed-bug free homes. And that’s not all.

Scientists at London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) spinout Arctech Innovation have used their in-depth knowledge of insects, chemistry and odor to develop a new trap for bed bugs.

"This trap will help landlords, tenants, and pest-control professionals determine whether premises have a bed bug problem, so that they can treat it quickly.

An effective and affordable bed bug monitor can be made by incorporating a new pitfall trap design, a chemical lure, and a sugar-and-yeast mixture to produce carbon dioxide.

New research shows that tiny hairs on bean leaves impale the pests through the feet. A synthetic version may eventually add to the anti-bed bug arsenal.

Two years later, the researchers ascertained that one of those chemicals, histamine, essentially signaled "safe shelter" to bedbugs. In lab tests, it both drew the bugs into traps, and kept them ...

VANCOUVER • Simon Fraser University scientists have discovered the chemical attractants needed to create the world’s first effective and affordable bait-and-trap for bed bugs.

These bed bug 'interceptors' stop the blood-sucking insects from invading your bed and making your night and day time a living hell - all for just £16.

By lending their own arms for thousands of bed bug bites, they have finally found the solution -- a set of chemical attractants, or pheromones, that lure the bedbugs into traps, and keep them there.