Technique in Artificial Feeding of the Bed Bug, Cimex lectularius L.
1930; American Society of Parasitologists; Volume: 16; Issue: 4 Linguagem: Inglês
10.2307/3271522
ISSN1937-2345
Autores Tópico(s)Insects and Parasite Interactions
ResumoSeveral students, who made a study of Cimex species as probable carriers of disease, attempted to feed the bugs artificially, but with little success. Andre (1912) attempted to feed the bed bugs cultures of pathogenic organisms mixed in bouillon, blood serum and blood; none of them were accepted. He also enclosed the above mentioned mixtures in spherules made of chicken skin, and tried to feed them to the bugs. However, he did not succeed. His own statement reads as follows: Nous avons essaye d'enfermer du sang frais souille de microbes dans des petites spherules faites d'epiderme de poulet, mais les Cimex ont refuser de piquer autre chose que des animaux vivants. He concluded, in other words, that the bug would feed on nothing but living animals. Cornwall and La Frenais (1916), in their many futile attempts to feed the bed bug artificially, found that Cimex rotundatus refused to feed through parchment or even skin which had been kept in a refrigerator for twenty-four hours. Concluding that the bug would not feed through anything but live skin, they tried the following method: The end of a glass cylinder, open at both ends, was placed inside the wound formed in a rabbit, close against the cleanly shaven skin. The bugs were placed near the skin from the outside, while the culture of pathogenic organisms with citrated blood was poured through the other opening of the tube. It was believed that the bugs would not feed except on blood. By this technique, the authors claimed they succeeded in feeding the bugs pathogenic cultures. Shrott and Swaminath (1924), followed this technique with satisfactory results. In the foregoing method, however, a host was used, and the technique, it seems to me, was quite complicated:
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