With the continuing advance of technology, radio tracking devices keep getting smaller and smaller. And that’s bad news for stealthy insects like kissing bugs. In a new pilot study, researchers in Texas successfully attached miniature radio transmitters to kissing bugs and tracked their movements. Kissing bugs, also known as triatomine bugs, are a group of bloodsucking […]
New Device Collects Bed Bugs
In recent years, bed bugs (Cimex lectularius) have been appearing more and more often in beds around the world, and entomologists need specimens for research purposes. Scientists in France have developed a tool that will aid this research, and their device is described in an article called “A High-Performance Vacuum Cleaner for Bed Bug Sampling: […]