
Ep 117 Bedbugs: Bug-bitten and bedeviled
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How Many Eggs Do Female Bed Bugs Lay?
In addition to having these aggregation pheromones, bed bugs also have alarm pheromone. So if you find their little abodes and then you start killing them and it smells really bad or weird, that is the alarm peromones that these bed bugs are releasing to warn any other little nests or refugia. Scuttle away, scuttle away,. they found us. That is so interesting because I came across several quotes describing how horrible they smelled or how distinctive they smelled. And it never occurred to me to wonder why they smelled.
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