Good Night Bedbugs!

Good night, sleep tight, and don’t let the bedbugs bite, is something I've

 said countless times to my kids and grandkids at bedtime often followed by their response, if they do we’ll bite ‘em back! Well it appears that there’s a promising new trap coming soon to the market that may help us say a final good night to bedbugs! A team of biologists have finally found out what combination of pheromones to use to lure bedbugs into a trap before they take to your bed and their favorite late night snack, you! It took two years for the team to find the molecule histamine that attracts bedbugs to human skin and keeps them there due to a composition that sends them a signal of safe haven. This histamine combined with two other compounds from previous research was used to create the concoction that works in the bait and switch traps soon coming to market (commercially available as soon as next year, which last I looked is only a few days away!) Too bad, so sad bedbugs, I won’t be singing your national anthem anymore (to the tune of our national anthem), Oh say can you see, any bedbugs on me. If you do, take a few, cuz I saved them just for you! Happy New Year and many better nights of sleep to everyone else!