The effective control of bed bugs within homes and structures continues to pose a problem within the pest management industry. While the amount of information on bed bug biology, behavior and control has steadily increased, surveys of pest control companies show that, as an industry, we continue to struggle with controlling this pest. Are these failures a result of the type of control strategies used, product selection or something else? In most cases, failures in the bed bug program occurred beforeany product was selected and before any treatment was performed. The failure occurred during the inspection phase of the bed bug control program.
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