Hello. The Allergy Guy here.

Today we read a great article posted in The Economist. The article is titled, “ A new debugger: How to get rid of bloodsucking insects,” and it described a new method of identifying and removing bed bugs. As quoted in the article, “James Logan, Emma Weeks and their colleagues at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and Rothamsted Research think they have [a new solution]: a bed-bug trap baited with something the bugs find irresistible—the smell of their own droppings.” The article then went on to describe how they came to this new conclusion. What they found was that the reason the bugs are attracted to this smell is that they use it to navigate back to their hiding places after a night of feeding. How fascinating right? To read the whole article, click here.

The article didn’t mention anything about when this would become available or if it was going to be a product available to the consumer market. We’ll be curious to see what happens in the future.

Have a great weekend!