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More bed bug research: Stephen Kells at the University of Minnesota »

Richard Shin reports for The Pioneer Press on research being done by Stephen Kells on bed bugs at the University of Minnesota.
Kells is at least one of the entomologists working on making an effective bed bug trap.
Alas, “we’re quite a distance off” from a monitoring trap, Kells said.
Eventually, it will be a wonderful invention.
It was […]

How to avoid bed bugs, according to Texas A&M’s student paper »

Independent Texas A&M student paper thebatt.com covers bed bugs this week. They mention the seminars in New York City, and the interesting research out of the Center for Urban and Structural Entomology (CUSE, housed at Texas A&M) on bed bugs and chicken farms. And–because it’s a college paper, perhaps–they dig right into the […]

Bed bug highlights from the 2008 Purdue Pest Management Conference »

This set of notes from the recent Purdue Pest Management Conference is from our bed bug professional-incognito, “Winston O. Buggy.” Thanks, Winston!
Following are some important tidbits covered at the conference submitted for your information and action agendas.
More work is being done on field strains of bed bugs, as opposed to much early work […]