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My CRS is acting up bad today,
but someone was knetching about bedbugs here a couple of time.
I just ran across this 'homeopathic' concept...
The bean leaves used to trap bedbugs hundreds of years ago in southeastern Europe may offer a model for a non-toxic, modern-day treatment, say U.S. researchers.
The biting nocturnal insects have invaded U.S. homes, hotels, schools, hospitals and more in recent years, causing widespread itching, burning and psychological distress.
"Plants exhibit extraordinary abilities to entrap insects," the study's lead author, Catherine Loudon, an entomologist at the University of California, Irvine, said in a university news release. "Modern scientific techniques let us fabricate materials at a microscopic level, with the potential to 'not let the bedbugs bite' without pesticides."
Microscopic hairs on 'kidney bean leaves' stab the insects, effectively trapping them, the researchers discovered. They are using their findings to develop non-toxic synthetic materials that will mimic the effects of the bean leaves and help prevent bedbug infestations, according to the report, published online April 9 in the Journal of the Royal Society Interface.
Methods currently used to combat bedbug infestations include freezing, extreme heating, vacuuming and pesticides.
The age-old Balkan treatment involved scattering kidney bean leaves on the floor next to beds to ensnare the blood-thirsty critters.
More information
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention provides more information on bedbugs.
SOURCE: University of California, Irvine, news release, April 9, 2013
but someone was knetching about bedbugs here a couple of time.
I just ran across this 'homeopathic' concept...
The bean leaves used to trap bedbugs hundreds of years ago in southeastern Europe may offer a model for a non-toxic, modern-day treatment, say U.S. researchers.
The biting nocturnal insects have invaded U.S. homes, hotels, schools, hospitals and more in recent years, causing widespread itching, burning and psychological distress.
"Plants exhibit extraordinary abilities to entrap insects," the study's lead author, Catherine Loudon, an entomologist at the University of California, Irvine, said in a university news release. "Modern scientific techniques let us fabricate materials at a microscopic level, with the potential to 'not let the bedbugs bite' without pesticides."
Microscopic hairs on 'kidney bean leaves' stab the insects, effectively trapping them, the researchers discovered. They are using their findings to develop non-toxic synthetic materials that will mimic the effects of the bean leaves and help prevent bedbug infestations, according to the report, published online April 9 in the Journal of the Royal Society Interface.
Methods currently used to combat bedbug infestations include freezing, extreme heating, vacuuming and pesticides.
The age-old Balkan treatment involved scattering kidney bean leaves on the floor next to beds to ensnare the blood-thirsty critters.
More information
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention provides more information on bedbugs.
SOURCE: University of California, Irvine, news release, April 9, 2013




wtf. i'm trying to take things slowly and he wasn't even trying to do that.