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FRANCE-SCIENCE-BIOLOGY-BEDBUGS
EMBARGOED UNTIL APRIL 9, 2013, 23:15 GMT
A handout combination of pictures released by the Royal Society on April 9, 2013 shows a bed bug standing on a kidney bean leaf (L) and a Low Vacuum Scanning Electron Microscope (LV-SEM) view of a hind leg of a bed bug (yellow) showing its size relative to the microscopic trichomes (green), which surround the tarsi. It's been frozen, baked, suffocated and sprayed with toxins... and each time the bedbug bounces back, leaving tiny bite marks on legs or arms where it takes a blood meal. 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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10 Aprilie 2013 |
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