While most claims of an effective bed bug trap have to date been much ado about nothing, a new product which seems to be the real deal is only a month or two away.
The trap I am talking about is the NightWatch by Biosensory, Inc.
In the past, this innovative company has produced an [...]

This Globe and Mail article is about Vegas, Care Pest and Wildlife Control’s bed bug dog, based in Burnaby, British Columbia.
But it includes a section on the status of bed bug aggregate pheromone research being undertaken by Dr. Gerhard Gries of Simon Fraser University:

Understanding how insects communicate with each other is the key to developing [...]

So far, there is no accurate bed bug trap available for sale, though we have heard various teams are working on them (including some researchers who are trying to produce a trap using aggregate pheromones to attract bed bugs).

This article from the Press of Atlantic City is a general “introduction to bed bugs” article that [...]

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 [...]

A pest control professional confirmed for us today the reports Parakeets heard about bed bug aggregate pheromones being developed.
We’re told that within 2-3 months, assuming the red tape is cut swiftly enough, glue traps should be available for sale which use a bed bug pheromone to attract bed bugs to aggregate there.
This is very exciting: [...]