Essential Oils as Fumigants for Bed Bugs (Hemiptera: Cimicidae)

Mark F. Feldlaufer; Kevin R. Ulrich

doi:10.18474/JES14-27.1

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Mark F. Feldlaufer,^1,* Kevin R. Ulrich^1,**

¹Invasive Insect Biocontrol and Behavior Laboratory, USDA-ARS, Beltsville, Maryland 20705, USA

^*Corresponding author (email: mark.feldlaufer@ars.usda.gov), Bldg. 1040; BARC-East, Beltsville, MD 20705.
^**Department of Entomology, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20740.

Abstract

Certain plant-derived essential oils are classified as ‘minimum risk' pesticides that require no registration with the Environmental Protection Agency and, therefore, have become attractive in formulations of pest-control products. In Petri dish assays, fumigation of a pyrethroid-susceptible strain of bed bugs, Cimex lectularius L. (Hemiptera: Cimicidae), with various essential oils results in mortality that approaches or equals 100% after 5 d. However, when bed bugs were exposed to the same essential oils in sealed, commercial trash bags for 5 d, only rosemary oil killed greater than 99% of the bed bugs. These results are compared with a commercial product that contains cold-pressed neem oil that killed 100% of the exposed bed bugs in both the Petri dish and trash bag studies.

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Mark F. Feldlaufer and Kevin R. Ulrich "Essential Oils as Fumigants for Bed Bugs (Hemiptera: Cimicidae)," Journal of Entomological Science 50(2), 129-137, (1 April 2015). https://doi.org/10.18474/JES14-27.1

Received: 25 September 2014; Accepted: 1 January 2015; Published: 1 April 2015

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