Scientists Identify Pheromone for Bed Bug Traps
The arms of Regine Gries, a biologist at Simon Fraser University, have provided blood meals for more than a thousand bed bugs each week for five years while she and […]
“Mean Old Bed Bug Blues” Shows How Bed Bugs Were Perceived 90 Years Ago
People sometimes talk about bed bugs as if they were a new problem. However, as Robert L. Usinger wrote in Monograph of Cimicidae, bed bugs have been biting people for […]
Bed Bugs Can Transmit Parasite that Causes Chagas Disease
In laboratory experiments, scientists were able to get bed bugs to transmit the Chagas disease parasite -- but it's unknown if that will happen in nature
A visit to Ohio State University’s Department of Entomology
By Richard Levine I’m in Columbus, Ohio for the annual meeting of the National Association of Science Writers (NASW), and during some down-time was able to visit the Entomology Department […]