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A new study shows that Bug Bombs are no match for the blood-sucking pests. Researchers at Ohio State University looked at three brands of bug bombs, also known as foggers, from a nationwide retailer and tested their effectiveness on five different bed bug populations in the lab. What they found was what pest-control experts had long thought. There has always been this perception and feedback from the pest-management industry that over-the-counter foggers are not effective against bed bugs and might make matters worse, said lead author Susan Jones, an urban entomologist with the Ohio Agricultural Research and Development Center. But up until now there has been no published data regarding the efficacy of foggers against bed bugs. Jones and her colleagueJoshua Bryant found thatHotshot Bedbug and Flea Fogger, Spectracide Bug Stop Indoor Fogger, and Eliminator Indoor Foggerhad little to no effect on the bed bugs. (Only Hotshot Bedbug is specifically labeled for use against bed bugs.) All three total-release foggers claim kills on contact yet all field-collected bed bugs were unaffected upon re-entry, the authors write. Even five to seven days after contact, the bed bugs remained unharmed.These foggers dont penetrate in cracks and crevices where most bed bugs are hiding, so most of them will survive, said Jones in the statement. Even when the bugs do come into contact with the insecticides, their varying levels of resistance to the insecticide and the foggers poor toxicity leave the crawlers unscathed.If you use these products, you will not get the infestation under control, you will waste your money, and you will delay effective treatment of your infestation, said Jones.
Alaska Disapproves Foggers Claiming to Kill Bed Bugs The Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation's Pesticide Control Program has taken action to disapprove total release foggers listing bed bugs as a target species or include the terms "bedbug" or "bed bug" on packaging. The first state to take this action, Alaska has cited several reasons for this change in direction: 1) foggers lack efficacy against bed bugs (especially in the places they tend to hide), 2) most foggers are pyrethrins or pyrethroids, compounds to which many bed bugs are resistant, 3) foggers can cause the bed bugs to spread to other units and 4) risks associated with fire when people overuse foggers to control beg bugs.
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