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Title Repellency of Selected Chemicals Against the Bed Bug (Hemiptera: Cimicidae)
Author CHANGLU WANG, LIHUA LU, AIJUN ZHANG, AND CHAOFENG LIU
Date 2013-08-08
Description Bed bug, repellency,DEET,
Keywords We evaluated the repellency of three commercially available insect repellent or control materials and Þve nonregistered materials with the goal of identifying safe and effective bed bugrepellents.Thetwocommercialrepellentproductsthatcontained7%picaridinor0.5%permethrin had little repellency against bed bugs. N , N -diethyl- m -toluamide (DEET), the most commonly used insect repellent, provided a high level of repellency against bed bugs.
URL http://njaes.rutgers.edu/pubs/pdfs/Wang-et-al-2013-Repellency-of-selected-chemicals-against-bed-bugs.pdf
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