Researchers from Lund University and Mid Sweden University have discovered a unique kind of smell produced by bed bugs, calling it as “alarm pheromones”.
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Researchers are holding on to this discovery in the hope that these repulsive "alarm pheromones" might help in controlling bedbugs. And in order to develop an effective bed bug repellant, it is imperative to understand how the bed bugs' pheromone system works.
Source-Medindia