Bed Bugs Can Be Sensed By Space Age Technology
Alana Korol
May 15, 2019
You may think bed bugs are a local issue, but that is naive. Bed bugs are annoying people across the globe. Lucky us!
Traveling worldwide has become much easier and more frequent, allowing bed bug populations to increase and infest worldwide. (I wonder if they have different accents?)
As you may know, one doesn't know they have a bed bug problem until they wake up the following day and see the bites and red welts on their bodies. But this may have changed thanks to British scientists Dr. Tagg Morgan and Colin Pillinger, who helped build the original Ptolemy device for the Rosetta comet-landing mission.
Dr. Morgan and Dr. Pillinger established their company, Insect Research Systems, which uses a matching concept to pursue the pheromones that bed bugs release.
"Bed bugs tend to come out in the dark, and during the day they go and hide which makes them difficult to spot," said Dr. Morgan. "They also have very flat bodies which means they can crawl into tiny crevices where you wouldn't be able to see them. We want to find them before they find you." I'm 100% on Dr. Morgan's side for this.
Traveling worldwide has become much easier and more frequent, allowing bed bug populations to increase and infest worldwide. (I wonder if they have different accents?)
As you may know, one doesn't know they have a bed bug problem until they wake up the following day and see the bites and red welts on their bodies. But this may have changed thanks to British scientists Dr. Tagg Morgan and Colin Pillinger, who helped build the original Ptolemy device for the Rosetta comet-landing mission.
Their instrument uses mass spectrometry to analyze the chemical composition of Comet67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. Mass spectrometry removes electrons from molecules and converts them to positively charged ions, which exhibit a particular spectrum when passed through a magnetic field.
Dr. Morgan and Dr. Pillinger established their company, Insect Research Systems, which uses a matching concept to pursue the pheromones that bed bugs release.
"Bed bugs tend to come out in the dark, and during the day they go and hide which makes them difficult to spot," said Dr. Morgan. "They also have very flat bodies which means they can crawl into tiny crevices where you wouldn't be able to see them. We want to find them before they find you." I'm 100% on Dr. Morgan's side for this.
"But bed bugs release chemicals to communicate with each other and these are what we are trying to find. It means that people could be pro-active about checking for the bugs and making sure they aren't present. You could screen rooms regularly and treat if they were found."
This bed bug detection device is a small handheld instrument that can uncover the proximity of insects within five minutes! This is a real game-changer, folk.
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