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Two new "cheap and cheerful" PASSIVE bed bug monitors
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Posted 7 months ago
Thu Apr 23 2009 13:07:25
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I have a new post updating readers on the Climbup (TM) Interceptor AND David Cain's new passive bed bug monitor.
Please read and comment on this blog article, if you wish. (Although often people comment on the forums, the blog reaches more readers and your forums login should be active there too, so you can comment using the same username).
These are passive monitors and serve very different functions from one another.
They're also different from the active monitors (like the CDC 3000 and Nightwatch) but VERY much more affordable. They are promising tools for detection and monitoring.
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Hi,
Thanks for the post, when I recover I will let you all know about two others that I saw at Pest Ex in London as well as a few things in early stage development that looked very promising indeed. It appears that Bed Bug technology is like waiting for a bus, nothing new for a while and then you get a whole crop all at once.
I am bound to be a bit biased of course but I will say that bed bugs were agenda item number 1 and almost everyone had something to say about them. I am hoping to be clear of work commitments on the weekend to get my thoughts together so I can do a good summary.
The latest estimated time of availability for what is soon to be available in 104 countries as BB Alert Passive is 2 months.
I also have a new life cycle diagram that has been created to show the life stages in true colours which the owners will allow free use for public education purposes as long as the copyright is acknowledged. It really is amazingly life like and helps clarify the progression in the colour changes as they mature. I will try and get a download page for it linked into bed bug beware at the start of next week.
I have some good analysis on Climbup which I will have to send to them first but its certainly a preferred solution to isolation and hopefully the death of talk about vasoline and bed legs.
I don't have costs for the US for obvious reasons but they are planned for sale on a UK website at 15 GBP with each unit lasting up to 12 months although it needs to be isolated and replaced if an infestation is detected. They will not help in the eradication of an infestation and are designed to detect all three signs of an infestation rather than capture and trap live samples.
David
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Thanks, David! I sent you a pm.
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spideyjg
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Posted 7 months ago
Fri Apr 24 2009 1:20:08
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So David got other pics of these monitors? Sounds like a little box that contains perfect harborage material to attract them to reside there.
I'm assuming it is clear underneath so that you can flip it up side down and look for newly moved in residents of the BB hostel you created?
Jim
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Hi Jim,
No it remains fixed in location and you check for visually for:
- Faecal traces - they preferentially defect on the detection skirt before entering the refugia
- Cast skins - when active for any length of time when we have found that they will use the detection skirt to help anchor the skins as they shed
- Live samples although if live capture is your goal then an active monitor is the best solution
In a recent office test we fed 4 bed bugs and placed them near the monitor. Within 2 days there were visible signs on the detection skirt and no faecal material had been deposited more than 2 mm from the detection skirt.
The knack to this system is regular inspection to identify the problem at earlier stages, in high exposure risk areas such as high turn over hotels it could be done daily or weekly only adding 30 -45 seconds to the room checking time.
There is a press item about it here:
http://www.pestmagazine.co.uk/_attachments/Resources/92_S4.pdf
By the middle of next week I will do a resource for bedbuggers with more information on them and how they work.
David
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Posted 7 months ago
Fri Apr 24 2009 12:03:38
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Great work, David. Hope you own the rights. May someone benefit from all this suffering.
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