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May 2009 
Bed Bug Traps Part Two
Posted on Feb 22nd, 2009
by 
ruth
ruth
Since yesterday I googled and exchanged a few email and it appears that many have already been working on a trap for bed bugs which would emit either carbon dioxide and warmth (Dr. Kells I believe) or phermones (Dr. Gries)
But my understanding is that traps are being developped for use by the extermination industry in order to better locate critter hideouts.
Whereas what I am imagining is that someone would come up with a trap that is AS attractive to BBs as sleeping humans and that could be used as a decoy to avoid bites and to help deinfest by trapping large numbers of bugs.
My understanding is that people often hire professional exterminators repeatedly and the cost is quickly prohibitive - I am sure the professionals are charging a fair fee for their time and work - but it is clear current methods simply don't work without exorbitant costs in profesional time and labour. Plus, apt dwellers pay $$$ only to be reinfested by neighbouring units in about 7 weeks. Let alone the difficulties faced by shelters for the socially disadvantaged.
In my mind I see future people (especially in apt complexes) concentrating their elbow grease on their beds. Keeping the bed fastidiously scrubbed and clear and putting their bed legs in buckets of soapy water or other mechanical deterent. They would coexist in the long run with a bedroom BB decoy to pick off any BBs that hitchiked home or traveled through the walls on pipes and wires. They would be free of the thankless cycle of reinfestation and reliance on the habits of neighbours; and free of costly professionals.
With BBs now traveling on subways and waiting to come home with us from theatres I doubt any of us can avoid eventually bringing them home.
I sure am hoping someone out there comes up with a solution before BBs come to my house.
:)
Oh, Dr Sorkin says some spiders eat BBs as do house centipedes.
But my understanding is that traps are being developped for use by the extermination industry in order to better locate critter hideouts.
Whereas what I am imagining is that someone would come up with a trap that is AS attractive to BBs as sleeping humans and that could be used as a decoy to avoid bites and to help deinfest by trapping large numbers of bugs.
My understanding is that people often hire professional exterminators repeatedly and the cost is quickly prohibitive - I am sure the professionals are charging a fair fee for their time and work - but it is clear current methods simply don't work without exorbitant costs in profesional time and labour. Plus, apt dwellers pay $$$ only to be reinfested by neighbouring units in about 7 weeks. Let alone the difficulties faced by shelters for the socially disadvantaged.
In my mind I see future people (especially in apt complexes) concentrating their elbow grease on their beds. Keeping the bed fastidiously scrubbed and clear and putting their bed legs in buckets of soapy water or other mechanical deterent. They would coexist in the long run with a bedroom BB decoy to pick off any BBs that hitchiked home or traveled through the walls on pipes and wires. They would be free of the thankless cycle of reinfestation and reliance on the habits of neighbours; and free of costly professionals.
With BBs now traveling on subways and waiting to come home with us from theatres I doubt any of us can avoid eventually bringing them home.
I sure am hoping someone out there comes up with a solution before BBs come to my house.
:)
Oh, Dr Sorkin says some spiders eat BBs as do house centipedes.
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