The new pitfall trap design caught significantly more (2.8-fold) bed bugs than the Climbup insect interceptor trap, which the authors name as the most effective monitor currently available on the ...

Regardless of how tropical bed bugs do it, their ability to escape pitfall traps "has profound implications in the monitoring and potential management of bed bug infestations," says Chow-Yang Lee ...

A better trap design can allow people to detect bed bugs while they are still in small numbers. Lead author Narinderpal Singh said: "If you have only 10 or 20 bugs in your apartment, it's very ...

Abstract. 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 ...

Bed Bug Pitfall Traps (IMAGE) Entomological Society of America. Caption. This image shows the experimental set up for determining the efficacy of a new pitfall trap design in a laboratory ...

Scientists have taken an Ikea dog bowl, leather dye, surgical tape, yeast and sugar and built a better bed bug trap. Changlu Wang, a Rutgers University entomologist, started to battle Cimex ...

The study looked at four pitfall traps the Verifi bed bug detector, ClimbUp insect interceptor, BlackOut bed bug Detector and SenSci Volcano bed bug 40 detector. All the traps were American made.

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 ...

The new bed bug trap comes from researchers at Simon Fraser University, and it published in Agewandte Chemie, International Edition in late December. We’ve been trying to build bed bug traps for ...

The new pitfall trap design caught significantly more (2.8-fold) bed bugs than the Climbup insect interceptor trap, which the authors name as the most effective monitor currently available on the ...

A better trap design can allow people to detect bed bugs while they are still in small numbers. Lead author Narinderpal Singh said: "If you have only 10 or 20 bugs in your apartment, it's very ...

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 ...