The Revolutionary NightWatch Beg Bug Monitor & Trap is Here!

NightWatch is an innovative bed bug trap and monitoring device that uses heat, CO2, and a patented lure (kairomone lure) mimicking the natural pheromones (chemicals that bed bugs extrude) to attract, trap and kill bed bugs. The NightWatch trap creates the same chemical patterns that a sleeping human does; attracting bed bugs for a quick bite, a snack, and then death.

This new proactive detection and monitoring product has been created by BioSensory Inc. and was extensively tested by Entomologists at Purdue University. The Entomologists concluded from their experiments that "pitfall traps with heat and chemical lures have potential to be useful tools for monitoring bed bug infestations and reducing bed bug numbers." – Just the right combination of elements that NightWatch provides to attract and then trap pesky bed bugs.

"Bed bugs are a scourge that must be dealt with." says Patrick Callahan, Director of Global Sales and Marketing for BioSensory in Connecticut. With NightWatch, pest management professionals have another excellent tool to monitor for and then kill bed bugs effectively.

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Several real world uses for NightWatch would be:

1. Consumer rental of traps to validate a bed bug problem. As many pests can be thought to be bed bugs, the verification of the presence of bed bugs or lack there of can save extermination fees, which for some homes can be several thousand dollars.
   
   
2. Hotels and motels may want to purchase several NightWatch traps and rotate them on their floors to verify that their proactive bed bug prevention treatments are working. Additionally hotels and cruise ships may want to rent units to validate a bed bug finding before hiring a bed bug extermination professional to treat the problem.
   
   
3. Hotels and motels may want to keep traps for a week in rooms next to bed bug infested rooms that have just undergone treatment to make sure that bed bugs have not crawled under a wall or through a ceiling vent to spread the problem into adjoining rooms.

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NightWatch is available now for purchase. We believe that the NightWatch monitors and traps are an innovative new product that will help our clients sleep better at night and protect their property investments.

Pricing is as follows:

• $450 each unit with free shipping.
• Replacement lures are available for $40 for a bag of four plus shipping.
• Replacement 20 ounce CO2 canisters are readily available locally at Lowes and Home Depot.

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To find out more about NightWatch, we invite you to download the BioSensory NightWatch brochure courtesy of BioSensory Inc. Read the NightWatch operating manual (PDF).

You may also want to review the scientific findings from Gary Bennett, Changlu Wang, Greg McGraw, Abou El-Nour, and Susan McKnight, of Purdue University’s, Department of Entomology located at 901 W. State Street, West Lafayette, Indiana. This scientific team presented their paper titled "Traps and Attractants for Monitoring Bed Bug Infestations" and an associated PowerPoint slide show at the annual meeting of the Entomological Society of America in December 2007. (BioSensory has supplied the PowerPoint presentation to us for web posting.) We think that you will find it to be interesting reading.

For more technical information on how CO2 aids in trapping of bed bugs a new scientific paper has recently been published on the Wiley Interscience website. Although you will have to pay to download the full paper below is the abstract showing that CO2 and lures (as featured in the NightWatch product) tremendously increase the capture of bed bugs.

"A trap for the collection of bedbugs, Cimex lectularius Linnaeus (Hemiptera: Cimicidae), is described. The trap was baited with CO2 (50–400 mL/min), heat (37.2–42.2 °C) and a chemical lure comprised of 33.0 μg proprionic acid, 0.33 μg butyric acid, 0.33 μg valeric acid, 100 μg octenol and 100 μg L-lactic acid, impregnated into a gel. Laboratory studies, conducted in a square arena measuring 183 cm on each side, showed that traps with and without baits captured adult bedbugs, but traps with CO2 emissions of 50–400 mL/min caught significantly (P < 0.05) more bedbugs than traps without CO2. In an infested unoccupied apartment, traps with heat and with or without the chemical lure were tested without CO2 on 29 trap-days and with CO2 on 9 trap-days. The numbers of bedbugs captured were 656 and 5898 in traps without and with CO2, respectively. The numbers of bedbugs of all development stages captured were significantly greater in traps with CO2 (χ2 = 15 942, d.f. = 1, P < 10−9). A non-parametric two-way analysis of variance evaluation of six different traps with or without CO2, heat or a chemical lure monitored over 19 trap-days in an infested apartment showed that trap type was highly significant (n = 2833 bedbugs collected) (P < 10−7). The trap with CO2, heat and a chemical lure captured more bedbugs than the other traps, but only caught significantly more fourth and fifth instar nymphs than all other traps. Otherwise, the catches in this trap did not differ significantly from those caught by traps that contained CO2 and heat only. The total numbers of bedbugs collected for each trapping date (pooling all six traps) followed an exponential decline over the trapping period. This type of trap, which caught bedbugs in unoccupied apartments with and without furniture, and in an occupied apartment, may have utility in studying the ecology of bedbugs, in detecting bedbug infestations and in reducing numbers of bites by trapping host-seeking bedbugs." Purchase access to the full scientific paper.

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NightWatch is easy to use and portable too!

1. Install a fresh NightWatch lure and connect the CO2 supply.
2. Plug in the NightWatch bed bug monitor into any outlet. It starts as soon as you plug it in.
3. Set the current time.
4. Place the trap in a strategic location under the bed near the headboard to start trapping bed bugs. NightWatch will operate automatically from 10:00 PM to 4:00 AM or any other eight hour time interval you set for monitoring. It will resume operation automatically after a power surge or electrical interruption. (The clock will need to be reset after a power outage.)
5. In the morning empty the trapped bed bugs from the trap's pit and remove them from the premises in a sealed refuse bag.
6. If no bed bugs are detected, monitor the room for a minimum of four nights and preferably fourteen. If bugs have been trapped, have the room or hotel room treated by the team of bed bug experts by Stern Environmental Group. After treatment, continue to monitor the room for an additional two weeks.

The device must be left in place for two weeks to produce a result that the company says is 99% conclusive.

NightWatch is a superior product for identifying the presence of bed bugs before an infestation happens allowing you to take prompt action to protect your home or hotel property and stop the spread of these pests. With its automatic on and off feature and long lasting CO2 cartridge and lure, NightWatch is a product that you will find easy to use as a bed bug monitoring device in multi-family and hospitality properties.

It is important to monitor for a full fourteen night period when you suspect bed bugs. As after a blood meal, bed bugs may possibly not feed again for another fourteen nights all while potentially laying one to two eggs per night increasing your problem. We recommend use of bed bug bite proof mattress encasements and special bed bug box spring covers for residential and hotel properties after a bed bug problem. For pricing and more information please visit our bed bug mattress cover section.

For best results the makers of NightWatch recommend monitoring for bed bugs for a minimum of seven nights and preferably for fourteen days. Under optimal conditions, the 20 oz. refillable (by Blue Rhino) CO2 bottle and lure will last for seven nights. The patented NightWatch lure should be replaced every seven nights. The CO2 gas is pulsed out over the course of the evening and so if safe to use even in enclosed rooms.

The NightWatch bed bug monitor and trap will cover a room approximately 16' by 16' in size. You may need multiple monitors to cover a room larger in size for best practices.

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