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New Personal Bed Bug Monitors
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I just wanted to post a brand new product on the forum that you may be interested in know more about - it is called the Bug Dome and I consider it an excellent inexpensive personal bed bug monitor for home and travel use.
Cost is $99.99 and includes free shipping. We are the first firm in the United States to carry this product from Silvandersson which is the maker of Cryonite.
Here is a link to the information and close-up photos so you can check it out.
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BugsInTO
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Fri Oct 16 2009 16:34:04
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When I read Bed Bug Dome, I hoped you had invented a $99.00 portable sleeping container for a human being. oh well.
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Hi Douglas,
Do you have any independent testing data you can share with us on this product?
Thanks!
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Once_Bitten
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Sun Oct 18 2009 7:13:21
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I'm very much a new 'learner' to bed bugs, I'm being bitten but have yet to find any conclusive evidence of them but, being an avid 'learner', one thing I thought was a no-no was causing the bugs to release panic phermonomes?
Wouldn't causing a bug to become trapped in glue make them release this? -
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Sun Oct 18 2009 10:43:10
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did any one see how hot these thing get!!
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cilecto
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Sun Oct 18 2009 10:45:34
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Are these the monitors that David Cain was involved in creating or marketing?
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cilecto - 11 minutes ago »
Are these the monitors that David Cain was involved in creating or marketing?No, I have a couple of the prototypes from bed-bugs.co.uk (David Cains company) and they are purely passive monitors
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Hi,
As stated above this product has nothing to do with me and I doubt we will even be stocking it having seen it early this year. I had actually heard that it was not likely to make the market and certainly the pictures I have seen only used lab strain bed bugs.
David Cain
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$99 seems a high price for just heat as an attractant and glue, unless I am reading the description incorrectly. Obviously, though, I'd be happy to see any testing data.
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Silvandersson, the manufacturer of the Bed Bug Dome, has preliminary research on the monitor. I am expecting to receive this research at the National Pest management Association PestWorld 2010 in Las Vegas next week.
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Hi Douglas,
Please do let us know when something is available that people can read.
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Deathlyallergic
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Wed Oct 28 2009 11:58:30
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yes, I would like to know also, they shouldn't get too hot for the fact that these things live up to 113 degrees, unless the center is the 120 degrees to kill once they enter
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Deathlyallergic - 13 hours ago »
yes, I would like to know also, they shouldn't get too hot for the fact that these things live up to 113 degrees, unless the center is the 120 degrees to kill once they enterHi,
I am not sure of the temp it gets to but I saw this in London earlier this year. The basic idea is that the temperature lures them up and into the device and the liquid glue immobilises them. I just hope that they do not release alarm pheromones which are then dispersed through the room via the convection funnel that would occur from the heat plate.
David
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Deathlyallergic
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Fri Oct 30 2009 0:13:45
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BBCOUKonTour - 23 hours ago »
Deathlyallergic - 13 hours ago »
yes, I would like to know also, they shouldn't get too hot for the fact that these things live up to 113 degrees, unless the center is the 120 degrees to kill once they enterHi,
I am not sure of the temp it gets to but I saw this in London earlier this year. The basic idea is that the temperature lures them up and into the device and the liquid glue immobilises them. I just hope that they do not release alarm pheromones which are then dispersed through the room via the convection funnel that would occur from the heat plate.
DavidDo you know it to work??? Alarm pheremones? you mean to warn the others?
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I have not seen any data on it other than with lab strain bed bugs which behave in a very different way to field strain ones in terms of both behaviour and resistance/tolerance to insecticides.
We also know that immobilised bed bugs release alarm pheromones when they are stuck or under duress. Its not a quantum leap to see how a heating device will set up a convection capable of dispersing the alarm pheromone but unless you are willing to let me infect your home and watch them scatter we may never fully know.
David
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Question. What is different/problematic about the heating unit in this one vs. the CDC3000 and Nightwatch?
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The difference is huge but in summary CDC and Nightwatch use heat as part of the lure where as this system the heat is the only lure. It is also open to the environment and is effectively a warming plate that draws bed bugs up the sides and into a pool of non drying glue where they could be immobilised.
I have not tested it myself so am going on design and knowledge of bed bug biology and how they interact with the environment they are in. Sometimes that's all that is needed though.
If you want to see what I mean get pictures of all three and compare, yes they are all active trapping devices by design but they do not function in the same way.
David
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Thanks David. What I'm getting at, if you have the patience for me, won't all heat-lure devices present the alarm pheremone problem?
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are all vehicles trucks?
There is a major difference between an open heat source with glue and the other systems. An open heat source will naturally set up a convection in the room that could dispurse things, putting an absorbent lid on might have gotten around it but if they had of bothered to ask I would have told them that 12 months ago.
The main point however is that we are still waiting for field based data on it. Testing products and new insecticides with established lab strains will always give a false picture of what actually goes on in the real world. A colony that has been breed in captivity for 10 - 30 years will have un-natural behaviour patterns and will often loose any level of resistance/tolerance to chemical products which is why some of ask always ask to see if and why some people don't want to produce it.
I am not knocking the potential of the system as with the right modifications it could work but its usually best to iron these things out before you start to see it.
David
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OK, so I get it, the CDC3000 and Nightwatch trap the alarm pheremones and Bug Dome disburses them. That's the assumption anyway.
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One traps them in the open and the others trap them inside is probably a better summary.
David
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Posted 3 weeks ago
Fri Oct 30 2009 21:37:10
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Now Im all confused?!!
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Wed Nov 4 2009 19:56:05
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Cost of Nightwatch/CDC 3000 vs. cost of Dome? Has anyone tried the Dome in the field yet? I'm also waiting for data...
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