Let’s kick around a little bit about bedbugs. You know I’ve been to a lot of training classes over the last year pretty consistently. And bedbugs come up all the time because let’s face the reality they’re gonna be with us for a long long long time. And we’re always looking for solutions we’re trying…
In a laboratory test paraffin oil, 18 essential oils, 3 silicone oils, and were studied for their toxicities against bed bugs. Silicone 1, 2, 3, and paraffin oil outperformed all essential oils tested while neem, basil, anis star, and peppermint performed the least. Best performing essential oils where blood orange and Chinese cedarwood. The oils…
Bed Bug Control With IGR Insect Growth Regulators Juvenile Hormones and chitin synthesis inhibitor. What works, what dosnt work and what shows promise. Krüppel homolog 1 and E93 mediate Juvenile hormone methoprene regulation of metamorphosis in the common bed bug, Cimex lectularius We studied the regulation of molting and metamorphosis in bed bugs with a…
The Liability of Bed Bugs who is Responsible and who pays Who is responsible if a unit gets bedbugs? A furniture moving company delivers bed bugs. A used furniture store sells infested bunk beds. Are there any bed bug protocols? You just did a bed bug inspection with no PPE and you go perform a…