Post by bbtheripper on Nov 14, 2014 22:03:02 GMT
In laboratory tests, bed bugs are fed blood from animals such as rabbits through a container closed off with cloth. The lab publications note that they put their mouth parts to the cloth and drink the blood on it.
This catalyzed a new, novel way in which we can possibly exterminate bed bugs.
Synthetic blood does exist. Boric acid, at present, does not work to exterminate bed bugs because they need to ingest it. So, I thought to myself, why don't we get them to drink boric acid?
I envision a self-adhesive dish (constructed from material which bed bugs can climb) and a mixture of synthetic blood and boric acid in which the liquid mixture can be dropped into the self-adhesive disk for the bed bugs to drink, and then die from the boric acid.
The disks can be marinated with lure chemicals, and the addition of heat and carbon dioxide can be utilized to get the bed bugs to drink the poison that much faster.
What are your thoughts? Is this the magic bullet we're waiting for?
This catalyzed a new, novel way in which we can possibly exterminate bed bugs.
Synthetic blood does exist. Boric acid, at present, does not work to exterminate bed bugs because they need to ingest it. So, I thought to myself, why don't we get them to drink boric acid?
I envision a self-adhesive dish (constructed from material which bed bugs can climb) and a mixture of synthetic blood and boric acid in which the liquid mixture can be dropped into the self-adhesive disk for the bed bugs to drink, and then die from the boric acid.
The disks can be marinated with lure chemicals, and the addition of heat and carbon dioxide can be utilized to get the bed bugs to drink the poison that much faster.
What are your thoughts? Is this the magic bullet we're waiting for?