April 10, 2013
Bedbug on bean leaf (left); bedbug leg trapped by tiny, hairlike trichomes on leaf surface (right) Image credit: M. Szyndler and C. Loudon / UC Irvine Researchers have investigated an old Balkan bed bug remedy, finding that kidney bean leaves can impale and trap bed bugs. The scientists, Catherine Loudon, Robert Corn, and Megan Szyndler of The […]
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April 7, 2013
The Boston Globe reports that a Boston pest control operator recently uncovered an illegal guns and ammunition stash under someone’s bed, while searching for bed bugs in a South End public housing development: A pest-control worker found two guns Saturday morning while checking for bed bugs under a mattress in a unit in the Cathedral […]
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