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Non-Chemical Bed Bug Management
Brittany Campbell, PhD, BCE
ed bugs are one of the most control that doesn’t require a pesticide.
labor-intensive pests that pest Recent research out of Rutger’s
management professionals (PMPs) Entomology Department evaluated
Btackle. These tiny, cryptic (i.e. the effectiveness of some non-
well hidden) creatures can get into almost chemical management strategies
anything inside of human spaces and are against bed bugs. They compared
keenly adept at spreading by themselves two different non-chemical programs
or hitching a ride. Often, digging into the in three different high-rise buildings
PMP toolbox and utilizing a combination in New Jersey, two managed by a
of tools is necessary to get complete private company and one by a public
control of bed bug infestations. Aside from housing authority. The buildings
pesticides, there are multiple non-chemical had 7 years of bed bug infestation
options that can be used in conjunction history with documented self-treating,
with other treatment methods for bed treatments by housing staff and
bug control. Non-chemical essentially some PMP interventions. For one
means anything like vacuuming, mattress program, the researchers steamed
encasements, steam, and heat for bed bug furniture, vacuumed, installed
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