Do-It-Yourself Bed Bug Detector

From December 18, 2009 Science News, by Susan Milius

After trying some 50 arrangements of household objects, researchers have come up with a new, homemade bed bug detector.

Wan-Tien Tsai of Rutgers University worked with Changlu Wang, also at Rutgers, for six months on designing homemade devices that lured bed bugs out into a trap so residents can tell whether a home is infested.  Like many insects that search for blood, bed bugs are attracted to plumes of concentrated carbon dioxide, good clues that an animal filled with liquid dinner is breathing somewhere nearby.  In lab tests, carbon dioxide beat heat and several chemical attractants in drawing the bugs out of hiding.

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I stop and inspect my ankles and identify the culprit as fleas, flea products. Since I now know why I continue on to the office. My choice of treatment for fleas is CB-80. I treat the truck carpets and my pantlegs.

The how of this is I inspected a house which had pets prior to my visit, the house is now empty. Remeber fleas can lay dormant for quite a period of time and when they smell CO2 they hatch and attack.

Please remember fleas can attack even in December.

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