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Volume 2012 (2012), Article ID 273613, 9 pages
doi:10.1155/2012/273613
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Interactions among Carbon Dioxide, Heat, and Chemical Lures in Attracting the Bed Bug, Cimex lectularius L. (Hemiptera: Cimicidae)

Narinderpal Singh,1 Changlu Wang,1 Richard Cooper,1 and Chaofeng Liu2

1Department of Entomology, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, NJ 08901, USA
2Department of Statistics, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47907, USA

Received 3 October 2011; Revised 19 December 2011; Accepted 21 December 2011

Academic Editor: Mark M. Feldlaufer

Copyright © 2012 Narinderpal Singh et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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