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Bed bugs, chickens and DNA: a Q&A with Dr. James Austin »

Bedbugger has been following the fascinating genetic research on bed bugs, a collaboration between the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville’s Insect Genetics Laboratory and Texas A&M’s Center for Urban & Structural Entomology, that illuminates a new perspective on the bed bug resurgence: the possibility that bed bugs were continuously present in the United States throughout […]

Houston Chronicle update on the U of Arkansas / Texas A&M research on bed bugs in chicken breeding facilities »

A new article picked up by the Associated Press offers more information on the chicken industry-bed bug connection being researched by scientists at the University of Arkansas–Fayetteville and Texas A&M University.
Scientists say bedbugs bed down in chicken breeder houses | Chron.com - Houston Chronicle
Arkansas entomology professor C. Dayton Steelman, who collects laboratory samples, says […]