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New bed bug photo from Lou Sorkin

nobugsonme — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 15:27:14 +0000

Amazing new image from Lou Sorkin of the American Museum of Natural History:

Lou writes, in the photo description:

After feeding hundreds of bed bugs for around 10 minutes and watching many plump nymphs and adults crawl away from the top of the jar along the cardboard (inverted on my arm), I set the jar on the table and unscrewed the cover to see what happens to the rest of them.

They stay clumped like this for at least 10 minutes, and do not disperse even though I am not on the other side of the screen any longer. Some crawl over one another and appear to look for a better feeding position. Maybe there is a pheromone produced or maybe just a feeding frenzy behavior?

Thanks, once again, to Lou for sharing his knowledge and his amazing photos of bed bugs. And, of course, for his tireless efforts to educate the world about bed bugs, as evidenced in the comments here and here.

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Lou Sorkin and Bill Schutt: feeding Lou’s bed bug colony

nobugsonme — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 23:06:32 +0000

An excellent youtube video from Bill Schutt (the author of Dark Banquet) featuring Lou Sorkin feeding his “pets.” We’re big fans of Lou Sorkin, and we can’t thank him (and all the other entomologists who do this) enough for enduring bed bug bites in the sake of research.

As Lou quips, “Without me, what are they gonna do?”
Indeed!

This is Bill Schutt’s book, Dark Banquet:

New paperback out 10/2009:

Many thanks to Lou and Bill Schutt for the informative video below!

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New bed bug video from Lou Sorkin’s colony

nobugsonme — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 18:24:18 +0000

New video of Lou Sorkin’s bed bug colony:

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