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Do-it-yourself bed-bug detector

With bed-bug numbers on the rise in North America, researchers test homemade bug finders

By Susan Milius

- More than 2 years ago

INDIANAPOLIS — After trying some 50 arrangements of household objects, researchers have come up with a new low-cost, homemade bed-bug detector.

FIND ME Bed bugs searching for a nice blood dinner find plumes of breathlike carbon dioxide enticing. Designs for homemade pest detectors are turning this taste for carbon dioxide against the bugs.