Urban entomologists have discovered a gene mutation that could contribute to bed bug insecticide resistance. A global infestation of bed bugs after World War II was nearly eradicated in the 1950s ...

The maps, which authors describe as an unprecedented “near-error-free” look at the bug’s genetic make-up, reveal that certain ...

We're not finding populations without that mutation, which is kind of amazing." According to Booth, fipronil and dieldrin—pesticides that have proven effective against bed bugs in the laboratory ...

“By comparing the amino acid sequences between the susceptible and resistant bed bugs, we identified 729 transcripts with resistance-specific mutations.” “Resistance” is a broad concep ...