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GAINESVILLE (FOX 13) -

They will definitely suck your blood, but they shouldn't drain your wallet. Thats the message from University of Florida insect researchers who have developed a bedbug trap that costs consumer less than $1 to build.

"Having low cost bedbug control is a must," said Roberto M. Pereira, Ph.D., Associate Research Scientist at the University of Florida.

Pereira works in a lab that is positively crawling with pests cockroaches, termites, flies, mosquitoes, and bedbugs among them.

"It's very creepy for someone that's not used to it," Pereira said.

The trap UF entomologists have designed for do-it-yourself construction is remarkably simple and intended to rest beneath bedposts. Essentially, its two plastic containers (the first smaller than the second) placed inside of one another.

"We want to have a mote between the two containers, Pereira said. Like a castle."

The secret ingredient is a common household item: ordinary masking tape.

Pereira wraps the tape around the edges of the exterior container, then adds vertical strips to the interior of the smaller container. And thats about it.

"The tape serves as a place for the bed bugs to climb," Pereira explains, noting that bed bugs tiny legs are unable to traverse the slick plastic edges of kitchen containers.

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A low-cost trap to get rid of bedbugs