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Back Cover: Bed Bug Aggregation Pheromone Finally Identified (Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 4/2015)
Author(s) -
Gries Regine,
Britton Robert,
Holmes Michael,
Zhai Huimin,
Draper Jason,
Gries Gerhard
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
angewandte chemie international edition
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 5.831
H-Index - 550
eISSN - 1521-3773
pISSN - 1433-7851
DOI - 10.1002/anie.201412135
Subject(s) - pheromone , bed bug , cover (algebra) , trapping , biology , ecology , engineering , mechanical engineering
After feeding on blood bed bugs aggregate in response to a pheromone blend comprising five attractive volatile components and histamine, which causes arrestment upon contact. In their Communication on page 1135 ff., R. Britton, G. Gries, and co‐workers demonstrate the high effectiveness of this blend at luring bed bugs into traps in infested premises. The trapping of juvenile and adult bed bugs indicates that this pheromone could become an effective bait for bed bug detection (picture: M. Habrar and S. Demuth).