Effect of Trap Design, Chemical Lure, Carbon Dioxide Release Rate, and Source of Carbon Dioxide on Efficacy of Bed Bug Monitors. Journal of Economic Entomology , 2013; 106 (4): 1802 DOI: 10.1603 ...

In this realistic setting, their dog bowl trap caught nearly three times as many bed bugs over 28 days, compared to the market leader. Chemical 'lures', known to appeal to bed bugs, made the traps ...

Traps are tools that let pest controllers know bed bugs are in a home, but that's about it. Traps won't clear a bed bug infestation. For actual treatments, we still have limited choices, and that ...

We’ve been trying to build bed bug traps for centuries. ... The concentration of the pheromones will also be important—too strong, and it may lure the bugs from an adjoining apartment.

The climbing abilities of two bed bug species, Cimex lectularius L. and Cimex hemipterus (F.), were determined by evaluating their escape rates from smooth surface pitfall traps using four ...

MARYSVILLE, Ohio, July 31, 2017 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- With news reports of bed bug infestations on the rise across the country, Ortho®, the nation ...

The complete bed bug-killing mix contains dimethyl disulfide, dimethyl trisulfide, (E)-2-hexenal, (E)-2-octenal, and 2-hexanone. These are known as “volatile” components, and they are what ...

According to a new article in the Journal of Economic Entomology, an effective and affordable bed bug monitor can be made by incorporating a new pitfall trap design, a chemical lure, and a sugar ...

The authors also found that traps baited with an experimental chemical lure mixture caught 2.2 times as many bed bugs as traps without the lure.

In this realistic setting, their dog bowl trap caught nearly three times as many bed bugs over 28 days, compared to the market leader. Chemical 'lures', known to appeal to bed bugs, made the traps ...

It could help unlucky holiday makers detect these unwelcome travel companions before an infestation takes hold. Experimenters from the Department of Entomology compared a new "pitfall" trap design ...

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