DIY Bedbug Trap: Cheap, Easy, Effective
Homemade device can alert people to the earliest stage of an infestation.
This do-it-yourself (DIY) device to trap bedbugs was created by Narinderpal Singh, Changlu Wang, and Richard Cooper from Rutgers University in New Jersey. It does not kill the bugs, but it can alert homeowners to infestations at their earliest stages, when the bugs are more easily exterminated.
"This is about early detection. When you detect the bugs, then you can call the professionals," says Singh, whose study was published in the Journal of Economic Entomology.
Bedbugs are blood-sucking insects that have been feasting on humans for thousands of years. In the 1940s, they were mostly eradicated in the developed world using insecticides, but they are enjoying a resurgence that leaves tens of thousands of people with itchy welts.
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