Wednesday, February 6, 2013

How Do Researchers Feed Thousands Of Bloodthirsty Bed Bugs?

Bed Bugs Feeding
Bed Bugs Feeding: Bed bugs climb up to feed from an artificial feeder.  Rick Santangelo, NCSU
Brooke Borel is a contributing editor at Popular Science:
When the common bed bug staged its comeback over a decade ago, scientists hadn't really studied the insect for about forty years. Once it was clear bed bugs weren't going away, researchers who wanted to learn how to thwart them first had to figure out how to keep thousands--or hundreds of thousands--alive in the lab. The first trick was to feed them. Bed bugs eat just one thing: blood... Continue reading...

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