A Short Heat-Treatment of Luggage May Reduce Spread of Bedbugs

Monday, August 15, 2016 - 12:21 in Biology & Nature

A University of California, Irvine entomologist has discovered that a brief blast of heat can kill bedbugs traveling on the outside of luggage, suggesting an additional way to use this nonchemical means of controlling the annoying insects.

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