by wasim alchaboun | Sep 28, 2016 | Latest News
Bed-bugs, and their close cousins bat-bugs, are renowned for their bizarre sex lives New results suggest that insecticide use in the tropics is to blame for the re-emergence of bed-bug infestations. Exposure to treated bed nets and linens meant that populations...
by wasim alchaboun | Sep 27, 2016 | Latest News
©SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY Image caption: Bed bugs cannot fly but hitch a ride with humans. The ability of bed bugs to return so quickly after human attempts to get rid of them has been explained by University of Sheffield researchers. Genetic analysis has shown that a...
by wasim alchaboun | May 16, 2016 | Latest News
FORGET a good night’s sleep and sweet dreams, if this plague takes hold in your home you will be living in a waking nightmare. Once a scourge that tormented a third of Brits in the 1930s, the dreaded bedbug has been making a misery filled come back. Cases have...
by wasim alchaboun | May 12, 2016 | Latest News
It seems that the insects are quite at home in the modern environment as 99.6 percent of all professional pest exterminators have dealt with them in the past year. The number hasn’t changed from 2013, but is significantly higher than 15, 10, or 5 years ago. Another...