by Ryan Castillo | May 11, 2022 | News and Press
Springtime comes with more time spent outside, beautiful flowers sprouting from the ground, and animals coming out from winter hibernation. With all this excitement, there may be some unwanted pests and critters that can start to invade our own habitats. Taking...
by Andrew Wang | Aug 5, 2020 | News and Press
While knowledge on current pesticides is limited to case and animal studies, research indicates the top three commercial bed bug sprays all contain ingredients that are toxic to humans. Many pesticides contain pyrethroids, an ingredient linked to 111 acute illness...
by Andrew Wang | Jul 30, 2020 | News and Press
While safer, heat treatment has no residual effect and reaches sublethal temperatures under conditions such as leather (Gondhalekar, 2019). Unfortunately, pesticide studies on chemicals such as DDT and RoundUp often have a “lag effect,” as their effects are not known...
by vadmin | Jul 23, 2020 | News and Press
Recent studies have shown the persistence of disease-causing pathogens in bed bugs (Gondhalekar, 2019; Hamzaoui et al. 2019). Many victims of bed bugs report anxiety, depression, and insomnia, further draining a facility’s resources (Eveleth, 2014). Mistreatment of an...
by vadmin | Jul 15, 2020 | News and Press
59% of senior living facilities reported a pest infestation in 2018, a number that has only grown as many pests develop immunities to traditional toxic pest control chemicals. With the senior population significantly less likely to report initial infestations,...
by devadmin | Mar 20, 2015 | News and Press
Three startups won top honors at Thursday’s Plug and Play Expo, but only one drew gasps from the crowd of several hundred during its pitch. That was the reaction after Vama Inc. Chief Financial Officer Ankur Jain demonstrated the safety of its bed bug spray by...
