An effective and affordable bed bug monitor can be made by incorporating a new pitfall trap design, a chemical lure, and a sugar-and-yeast mixture to produce carbon dioxide. A new pitfall trap ...

Not all bed bugs are created equal, and some of the leading bed bug traps used by pest management professionals are ineffective against species with better climbing abilities than others. In a study, ...

We analyzed effects of pitfall trap color on spider catches using four different pitfall trap colors (white, yellow, green, brown). For each color, we installed 17 pitfall traps at two grassland sites ...

A new pitfall trap designed to capture bed bugs is more effective than those currently on the market, according to the authors of an article appearing in the next issue of the Journal of Economic ...