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FRANCE-BEDBUGS-MICROSCOPE
EMBARGOED UNTIL APRIL 9, 2013, 23:15 GMT
This handout combination of pictures released by the Royal Society on April 9, 2013 shows Low Vacuum Scanning Electron Microscope (LV-SEM) images of of bed bug legs (yellow) on bean leaf surfaces with hooked trichomes (green). (a) Piercing under a pretarsal claw leads to entrapment of a bug by a leaf. (b) Piercing occasionally occurs at a tarsal intersegmental membrane, also causing entrapment of a bug. (c) Higher magnification of piercing from (a). (d) In contrast, hooking causes momentary snags of a bug leg. In a journal of Britain's prestigious Royal Society, US entomologists on April 9 reported progress in a quest to emulate anti-bedbug defence found in the hairs of leaves from the kidney-bean plant, known by its Latin name of Phaseolus vulgaris. In rural Bulgaria, Serbia and other parts of the Balkans, these leaves are scattered on the floor next to the bed, snagging the blood-sucking little parasites during their night-time forays. AFP PHOTO / ROYAL SOCIETY
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AFP / Mediafax Foto |
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10 Aprilie 2013 |
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