Hostname: page-component-848d4c4894-pftt2 Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-06-01T23:55:06.465Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

The Influence of Temperature, Submersion and Burial on the Survival of Eggs and Larvae of Cimex lectularius

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 July 2009

A. W. Bacot
A. W. Bacot
Affiliation:
Entomologist to the Lister Institute.
Get access Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Extract

These experiments were performed in response to a question submitted to me from the Royal Sanitary Institute. The point at issue was the possibility of eggs of the common bed-bug, Cimex lectularius, surviving the process of house-destruction, when the plaster from old walls, on which eggs had been laid, was broken down and remixed with fresh mortar for making the partitions of rooms in new tenements; such survival having been given as an explanation for previously unoccupied houses being infested with bugs.

Type
Original Articles
Information
Bulletin of Entomological Research , Volume 5 , Issue 2 , September 1914 , pp. 111 - 117
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1914

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

* The water was frozen round the eggs.

* Annals of Tropical Medicine and Parasitology, iv, no. 4, Dec. 1912, pp. 415–428.

* This temperature also destroys adult fleas (Xenopsylla cheopis) in a few minutes; while two larvae of Periplaneta americana and a hibernated specimen of Calliphora erythrocephola survived the fleas at 113° F., but died within 15 or 20 minutes when the temperature had risen to 117° F.