Bed bugs can’t stand the heat. Temperatures above 46°C kill all life stages. Professional heat treatments raise room temperatures to lethal levels, reaching hidden bugs that chemicals might miss.
These include a sweet, musty odor, which bed bugs use to communicate with one another, specks of blood, or its outer shell ...
This property originates from the formation of a cholesteric liquid crystal phase with an optically active, helical structure during chrysalis during exoskeleton formation and the solidification ...