You may have heard that blood-sucking bedbugs are spreading throughout the country and world, years after they were thought to have been largely eradicated in the United States.
Bedbugs are insects in the Cimicidae family.
Unfortunately, the 'common bedbug' Cimex lectularius now shows resistance to multiple types of pesticides. Luckily, however, they have not been found to act as human disease vectors.
Online:
* Bed Bugs in Wisconsin [2008 UW Extension publication]
* Insect resistance management: biology, economics, and prediction
* Encyclopedia of insects
* How to control bed bugs [1976 USDA publication]
* Results of experiments with miscellaneous substances against bedbugs, cockroaches, clothes moths, and carpet beetles [1918 USDA publication]
* Bedbug [1916 USDA publication]
* Treatise on the Cimex lectularius; or, bed bug [1793]
Journals:
In the libraries:
* Global pesticide resistance in arthropods
* Dark banquet: blood and the curious lives of blood-feeding creatures
* Battling resistance to antibiotics and pesticides: an economic approach
* Colour atlas of medical entomology
* Evolution explosion: how humans cause rapid evolutionary change
* Medical insects and arachnids
* Biochemical sites of insecticide action and resistance
* Plague of the Philistines, and other medical-historical essays
* Insecticide resistance: from mechanisms to management
* Monograph of Cimicidae (Hemiptera, Heteroptera)
* Morphology and functional anatomy of the male and female reproductive systems of Cimex lectularius Linn.
* Get rid of bedbugs for a clean house [1967 USDA publication]
* Bed bugs: how to control them [1953 USDA publication]
* Bedbug: its habits and life history and methods of control [1944 US Public Health Office publication]
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