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bedbugsbad
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Posted 8 months ago
Sat Jun 27 2009 15:18:15
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I just opened my June copy of Pest Control Technology Magazine (yes, I now subscribe) and included was a pretty expensive brochure from Zoecom with a huge bedbug on the cover. Obviously its an advertisment for Gentrol, a chemical which has generated a lot of dicussion and controvesy on this website about its effectiveness on bedbugs. Now, I am not supporting, or not supporting it but I found two statements interesting based on some of the discussions we've had on this forum:
"There is information in the public domain that suggests Gentrol causes bed bug females to produce more eggs. This was a one time evaluation where immature bed bugs that escaped being affected by Gentrol produced more eggs than control replicates. These females that produced more eggs were not exposed to Gentrol at the time they were reproductive."
"In studies generated to satisfy EPA registration requirements Gentrol provided efficacy by inhibiting the development of the next generation of nymphs by 92%. In other words, nymphs exposed to a Gentrol treatment were unable to reproduce. Mortality was also observed in this study where 66% of the exposed nymphs failed to survive to adults. Of those surviving to adults reproduction was significantly reduced by 92% form the untreated control population. There was an average of 3 nymphs produced vs. an average of 61 produced in the untreated control group."
Take the above claims with a "grain of salt" given that they are coming from the manufacturer but interesting none the less.
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