insecticide resistance
tlambert | February 6, 2009Bug girl writes about a new paper on insecticide resistance of bedbugs. It turns out the resistance mechanism (kdr) means that they are resistant to DDT and pyrethroids. She concludes:
DDT will be utterly useless against bed bugs, so people should stop asking for it.
We're going to need a lot more research on ways to kill bedbugs other than just poisoning them with the usual pesticide suspects.
In cities where there are active bed bug populations, insecticide choice for resistance management will be very important in urban entomology.
Bedbugs are not going to go away, and you should…