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   If a bed is infested with bed bugs, and has been abandoned, how long will it take until all bed bugs have left the bed searching for a new host?

   How long will they wait for a host to return? Until they starve?

   I don't doubt that at least some will go searching for a new host, but how many and when?
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   Hi,

   The answer depends on how it is prepared for disposal.

   If an item is infected and is disposed without sealing bedbugs will wait until they detect a potential food source and then start to seek it out. This is usually by the detection of CO2 or heat.

   I am running an experiment in the warehouse at the moment where an item is sealed with a passive attached to see if / when bedbugs become active. At present we are two weeks in with little or no movement from existing refugia. This is a follow on from some field observations around Easter 2011 when a 2 bedroom flat only had 1 infected room despite the source room not being occupied for 10 days. During the 10 days there was no entry to the room which is likely to be the reason why there was no spread to other rooms.

   In short and back on track though seal and they cant move, leave open and it may quickly become the source of someone else's problem.

   Correct disposal information is posted on:

   http://www.bedbugbeware.com/disposalinfo.html

   Hope that helps.

   David Cain
   Bed Bugs Limited

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   bed-bugscouk - 31 minutes ago  » 
   Hi,
   The answer depends on how it is prepared for disposal.
   If an item is infected and is disposed without sealing bedbugs will wait until they detect a potential food source and then start to seek it out. This is usually by the detection of CO2 or heat.
   I am running an experiment in the warehouse at the moment where an item is sealed with a passive attached to see if / when bedbugs become active. At present we are two weeks in with little or no movement from existing refugia. This is a follow on from some field observations around Easter 2011 when a 2 bedroom flat only had 1 infected room despite the source room not being occupied for 10 days. During the 10 days there was no entry to the room which is likely to be the reason why there was no spread to other rooms.
   In short and back on track though seal and they cant move, leave open and it may quickly become the source of someone else's problem.
   Correct disposal information is posted on:
   http://www.bedbugbeware.com/disposalinfo.html
   Hope that helps.
   David Cain
   Bed Bugs Limited

   Could this suggest that bedbugs don't just look for CO2 and heat, but possibly human secretions or something else?

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   Thanks David, great that you're doing investigation! That's what we need.

   I was wondering if a bed bug can detect the presence of a host from inside his harborage.
   For instance, the bed bug wakes up at night in my bed frame, feels appetite but he doesn't detect his host so he turns another side and falls asleep again.
   Or will he every time he wants to feed, go looking if his host is there? Climbs on the bed; no, Rosa is not there, maybe tomorrow.

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   blargg - 4 hours ago  » 
   Could this suggest that bedbugs don't just look for CO2 and heat, but possibly human secretions or something else?

   No, the electrophysiology data indicates that the main attractants are CO2 and heat. Keromones are a secondary but given that the bedbug beacon works better and more reliably than the luring active monitors I would say no.

   David

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   hi Rosae,

   I think detection without leaving harbourage would depend on where the harbourage is. I know some common refugia such as pictures above the head of the bed would allow this easily but most would not.

   I think we would need to document some infestated locations to work it out and for the most part I am too busy killing them and avoiding the looters (for those who has seen it on the TV London is in a bad state of mind at present and lots of the looting areas are also bedbug hot spots).

   David

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   Yeah, it's a tragedy.

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