Tired of those bed bugs? They never seem to die or just go away. Researchers at Rutgers University found in a study that bed bugs that fed are being treated with pesticides had greater survival rates or took longer to die compared to bedbugs that did not feed after being treated. “Many of the insecticides labeled for bed bug control may not be as effective as claimed, because of the inadequate testing method,” Dr. Narinderpal Singh, coauthor of the study, said in a news release. “Current established test protocols for bed bug insecticides do not provide blood meals to bed bugs during the test period. We suspect the mortality data typically observed might be different if the tested bed bugs were provided a blood meal during the observation period.”
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