Chemical-free folk remedy for bedbugs that has scientists amazed and excited.
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At first glance, the whole notion seems far-fetched, said Catherine Loudon, a biologist at the University of California, Irvine, who specializes in bedbug locomotion.
“If someone had suggested to me that impaling insects with little tiny hooks would be a valid form of pest control, I wouldn’t have given it credence,” she said in an interview. “You can think of lots of reasons why it wouldn’t work. That’s why it’s so amazing.”
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Generations of Eastern European housewives doing battle against bedbugs spread bean leaves around the floor of an infested room at night. In the morning, the leaves would be covered with bedbugs that had somehow been trapped there. The leaves, and the pests, were collected and burned – by the pound, in extreme infestations.
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A study to be published Wednesday in The Journal of the Royal Society Interface details the scientists’ quest, including their discovery of how the bugs get hooked on the leaves, how the scientists have tried to recreate these hooks synthetically and how their artificial hooks have proved to be less successful than the biological ones.
http://www.thestar.com/news/world/2013/04/10/amazing_bedbug_remedy_stops_insects_in_their_tracks_without_chemicals.html
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It's amazing stuff, and it looks cool too.
But if I ever have to deal w/ bedbugs I have this post bookmarked! Thanks! 
