Amartya Banerjee, Achintya Saha, Parikshit Das, Ajay Kakati, Buddhadeb Saha, Danswrang Goyary, Yangchen D Bhutia, Sanjeev Karmakar, Sumit Kishor, Saidur Rahaman, Pronobesh Chattopadhyay
Emerging infestations of bed bugs are affecting normal human lifestyle globally. This study has been designed to optimize the rearing conditions for Cimex lectularius L. (Hemiptera), to support the scientific research on them. Bed bugs have been projected onto three different temperature (20 °C, 25 °C, and 30 °C) and relative humidity (50%, 70%, and 90%) conditions to check their overall growth and survival rate. Adult mortality, weight loss, egg laying, percentage hatching, hatching initiation and completion, nymph mortality, and molting have been evaluated to optimize the best conditions...
April 22, 2024: Scientific Reports