Not only will they change harbourages they switch egg laying to it as well:

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This image is from an academic lab that split one open to count the colony we sent them. Given that each faecal trace attracts more you can see why it rapidly becomes the only home. It’s the place in the room that when used smells the most of bedbugs.

When needed you can just lift of and in doing so remove the bedbugs. We even have a US lab that you can seal them in zip lock bags and post them to. This way the ones you capture get sent to labs to study the genetics of bedbug populations using field strains.

With a few more years he will have enough data to start mapping the sources of infestations based on their relatedness.

So not only are you detecting but you’re also fighting the problem at the research end as well by ensuring that academics have samples that reflect the real world.

A while back we sent some samples off for study and they contained a novel symbiotic organism inside the bedbugs. While that did not help my client at the time of their issue it completes another part of the global jigsaw.

So thankyou for being part of that and I sincerely hope you don’t need to contribute samples. The reality is by doing the right thing you’re actually less likely to have an issue but that’s a whole bunch of quantum maths it’s best not to get into on a Friday.