INDIANAPOLIS — After trying some 50 arrangements of household objects, researchers have come up with a new low-cost, homemade bedbug detector. To lure the bugs out of hiding, Wan-Tien Tsai of ...

With bed-bug numbers on the rise in North America, researchers test homemade bug finders.

Here’s an after-school science experiment gone right: researchers at Rutgers University in New Jersey created a homemade bed bug trap using a cat-food dish, an insulated jug and some dry ice ...

Most bed bug traps and tests can cost $50 or more, but this DIY trap is so simple and cheap that the researchers that came up with it want people to t ...

Stink bugs do not bite people or pets, but when disturbed they produce a pungent, acrid odor.Adult stink bugs enter homes in the fall seeking shelter, and emit that foul smell if crushed.You can ...

UPDATE, September 2012: The detector, called The Bed Bug Detective when this article was first published but more recently sold under the trade name The Electronic Dog Nose, claimed to detect bed ...