I am looking for someone who could share his experience about bed bug rearing. I have got some questions about the use of anticoagulant reagent. Between EDTA, Heparin or defirbinated blood, which is the best for rearing ? And if Heparine choice is the best, how do i have to use this product and in which form ?
I will be gratefull for any advice !
You should contact Ondřej Balvin. He has a lot of experience with rearing these beasts. :) (https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Ondej_Balvin)
It is easy but you have to make sacrifice with your blood regularly if you need the bed bug in large number because they lay thousands of white eggs at a time. Construct wooden bed with mattress with certain degree of dirtiness and infest within the crevices of the wooden bed with either female bed bugs laden with eggs about to be laid or males and females bed bugs. You must lie on the bed for 4 - 6hrs preferable at Nights regularly for the bed bugs to feed. You must be naked for easy access by the insects. This set up will act as your culture. After two to four weeks, you have the bed bugs for your research.
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