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A Method for Evaluating Insecticide Efficacy against Bed Bug, Cimex lectularius, Eggs and First Instars
Published on: March 15, 2017
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Bed bugs
Galen T Foulke1, Bryan E Anderson
1Department of Dermatology, Pennsylvania State University, Hershey, USA.
Seminars in Cutaneous Medicine and Surgery
|January 13, 2015
Abstract:
The term bed bug is applied to 2 species of genus Cimex: lectularius describes the common or temperate bed bug, and hemipterus its tropical cousin. Cimex lectularius is aptly named; its genus and species derive from the Latin words for bug and bed, respectively. Though the tiny pest is receiving increased public attention and scrutiny, the bed bug is hardly a new problem.

