{"id":1871,"date":"2013-04-17T05:00:15","date_gmt":"2013-04-17T10:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.allisonpest.com\/blog\/?p=1871"},"modified":"2013-04-17T05:45:38","modified_gmt":"2013-04-17T10:45:38","slug":"bed-bugs-and-beansa-sticky-combination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/new.allisonpest.com\/blog\/2013\/04\/17\/bed-bugs-and-beansa-sticky-combination\/","title":{"rendered":"Bed Bugs And Beans\u2026A Sticky Combination"},"content":{"rendered":"

It was a remedy used by women hundreds of years ago in southeastern Europe that enabled them to sleep without being ravished by bed bugs.\u00a0 Balkan women used to line the floors surrounding their beds with kidney bean leaves.\u00a0 When they awoke, they were bite free and any hungry bed bugs<\/a> were trapped on the leaves, stuck for eternity\u2026or at least until they were destroyed.\u00a0 Each morning the leaves were gathered and taken outside where they were burned.<\/p>\n

Bed bugs<\/a> are a continuous problem here in the United States as well as throughout the world.\u00a0 Scientists are on a constant quest to find a permanent end to the bloodsucking of the horrible pests.<\/p>\n

This age old tradition of using bean leaves to catch bed bugs has now caught the attention of scientists at the University of California, Irvine and the University of Kentucky.\u00a0 According to a report published online on April 9, 2013 in the Journal of Royal Society Interface<\/a>, bed bugs that happen across the kidney bean leaves become stuck.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s how it works\u2026Bed bugs have a suit of armor that is extremely resistant to pesticides.\u00a0 Imagine the pests wearing a big metal suit like soldiers did when they went to battle.\u00a0 They are well protected except for in a few places, in particular, where their legs meet their exceptional suit of armor.\u00a0 The kidney bean leaf has microscopic hooked hairs on one side of the leaf.\u00a0 These hairs are called \u201ctrichomes\u201d.\u00a0 As soon as the bed bug steps onto the leaf they are ensnared like a fish on a hook!<\/p>\n

This brilliant discovery has prompted scientists to try to create a synthetic version of nature\u2019s perfect solution to trapping the pests. So far, the bed bugs have escaped all synthetic creations.\u00a0 But rest assured\u2026it\u2019s only a matter of time before they are caught!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It was a remedy used by women hundreds of years ago in southeastern Europe that enabled them to sleep without being ravished by bed bugs.\u00a0 Balkan women used to line the floors surrounding their beds with kidney bean leaves.\u00a0 When they awoke, they were bite free and any hungry bed bugs were trapped on the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[35,252],"yoast_head":"\nBed Bugs And Beans\u2026A Sticky Combination - Allison Pest Control<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"http:\/\/new.allisonpest.com\/blog\/2013\/04\/17\/bed-bugs-and-beansa-sticky-combination\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Bed Bugs And Beans\u2026A Sticky Combination - 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