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True story: taking low doses of ivermectin for a few weeks will end the reproductive cycle of bedbugs, since the eggs produced are sterile/never hatch. It won't stop the feeding in the meantime , however.
You weren't joking:
> There were significant reductions in C. lectularius population size and fecundity in insects that fed on blood obtained from human study subjects up to 96 hours after they have consumed a single oral dose of ivermectin.
Umm, works for scabies too, also an insect infection https://bnf.nice.org.uk/drugs/ivermectin/ Interesting.
As they can survive a long time even without food, it may not be a solution even in theory.
I'm reading this through a smear on my screen which is the result of a spider that crawled across my face.
perfect timing
Mark Rober made a video about bedbugs and methods of fighting them:
What are the conditions required for the letter s in words to be replaced with f (in the document)?
First? Except maybe Pliny in 77AD?