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 her
husband, biology professor Gerhard Gries, searched for a way to control the
pesky insects. Working with SFU chemist
Robert Britton and a team of students, they may have finally found a solution —
a set of chemical attractants, or pheromones, that lure the bed bugs into
traps. Their research has been published in the journal Angewandte Chemie. “The
biggest challenge in dealing with bed bugs is to detect the infestation at an
early stage,” said Gerhard. “This trap will help landlords, tenants, and
pest-control professionals determine whether premises have a bed bug problem,
so that they can treat it quickly. It will also be useful for monitoring the
treatment’s effectiveness.”......Read more of this post
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