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Researcher Changlu Wang, left, hopes to eradicate the bedbug, one of the world’s most vexing creatures. Second-year student Vincenzo Averello assists in Wang’s entomology lab. The two are part of a team working to develop environmentally safe methods to capture and exterminate bed bugs.(Credit: Nick Romanenko)
RUTGERS (US)—Changlu Wang and his team are studying the habits of blood-sucking bedbugs in an effort to identify novel ways to capture and kill them. Ignored by researchers for decades, bedbugs are proliferating in the wake of a ban on the pesticide DDT. Continue…
