Comments on: Yet Again, Researchers Prove Bed Bugs Resistant to Common Pesticides

By: Jim

Jim — Mon, 01 Apr 2013 00:03:23 +0000

Well it is great to have scientific studies that confirm this. Being a pest control professional we see it every day. Bed bugs are becoming tougher and harder to deal with. The good news is that there are many precautionary measures one can take to avoid the problem entirely.

By: Ahmad Mahdavi

Ahmad Mahdavi — Mon, 11 Jun 2012 08:23:01 +0000

It seems that bedbugs like their herbivorous relatives are forwarned and forearmed against pyrthroids?!. Pyrethroids synthesised from their natual relatives pyrethrins are most and best candidates for selection for resistance by herbivorous insect pests and even there are scientific evidences showing that the main pyrethroid synergist Piperonyl butoxide (based again on natural compounds methylenedioxyphenyl compounds) is a good target for insects to be resistant to it because of its natural basis. However other than the resistance problems many pyrethroids have already shown signes for human toxicity while they were supposed to be safe. So as it is mentioned the best practice for bed bug control is IPM.

By: Paul

Paul — Sun, 10 Jun 2012 21:19:59 +0000

We are 3 eco-entomologists inventors of the Good Knight self sterilizing beds. FYI http://www.goodknightbeds.com
I’ve been trying to communicate with the EPA since 2011!

By: Jane

Jane — Thu, 07 Jun 2012 20:12:33 +0000

I think the point of this article was to show foggers as an ineffective application method. Even suseptible bed bugs weren’t killed, so it’s irrespective of any resitance to the active ingredient. So this would apply to the 25(b) cedar oil foggers as well. I just don’t think citing this study to say the chemicals weren’t effective is accurate.