An effective and affordable bed bug monitor can be made by incorporating a new pitfall trap design, a chemical lure, and a sugar-and-yeast mixture to produce carbon dioxide. A new pitfall trap ...

Bed bug infestations are a nightmare. The tiny, assholish insects can resist all sorts of measures to kill them completely. Drawn-out infestations are a scourge, but also fairly common in big cities ...

Right now, there's only one surefire way to know if you've got bed bugs-- and it itches like crazy. By the time you notice the lines of red, itching, burning bites, the bugs could have been ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. Over the past few weeks, you may have noticed a flurry of ...

What has six legs, lives on blood, and strikes fear into the hearts of mattress-owners everywhere? According to the National Pest Management Association, bed bug infestations peak during the summer ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. Uninvited guests at your summer cookout can be real pests. So get ...

Most bed bug traps and tests can cost $50 or more, but this DIY trap is so simple and cheap that the researchers that came up with it want people to try it themselves. Ideally, it'll catch the ...

Burrowing into skin, laying eggs in mattresses, and building entire colonies in sofas, bed bugs are any city dweller’s worst nightmare. That nightmare just got worse: A study published in the Journal ...

HOLBROOK, N.Y., Sept. 5, 2019 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- FiberTrap, a revolutionary eco-friendly micro-technology company out of Holbrook, NY, has found a way to combat the worldwide bed bug epidemic, and ...

In an unexpected holiday season gift, researchers at Simon Fraser University announced they may have finally cracked the chemical code of bed bugs. In field trials, their blend of bed bug attractant ...

Not all bed bugs are created equal, and some of the leading bed bug traps used by pest management professionals are ineffective against species with better climbing abilities than others. In a study, ...