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Title	Comparative Efficacy of Selected Dust Insecticides for Controlling Cimex lectularius (Hemiptera: Cimicidae)
Author	Narinderpal Singh, Changlu Wang,Desen Wang, Richard Cooper, and Chen Zha
Date	2016-04-07
Description	However, there are no scientific data available on the comparative efficacy of the commonly used insecticide dusts. We evaluated the efficacy of eight insecticide dust products using three exposure methods: 1) brief exposure—bed bugs crossed a 2.54-cm-wide dust-treated band, 2) forced exposure—bed bugs were continuously exposed to a dust-treated substrate, and 3) choice exposure—bed bugs were given a choice to stay on either dust-treated or untreated substrate. The brief exposure method was the most sensitive in detecting the differences among the insecticides. Only CimeXa (silica gel) dust caused 100% mortality from all three exposure methods
Keywords	bed bug, insecticide, dust
URL	http://entomology.rutgers.edu/personnel/changlu-wang/pdfs/Wang2016EfficacySelectedInsecticidesBedBugs.pdf
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