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Started by Mesozoic Mister Nigel, December 15, 2011, 12:23:59 AM

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Mesozoic Mister Nigel

December 15, 2011, 12:23:59 AM
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-16166134

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Hairier skin may be the key to avoiding being bitten by bed bugs, claim Sheffield academics.

Hungry bugs placed on shaved arms were more likely to try to feed compared with those on unshaved arms, the journal Biology Letters reported.

Researchers say the hair slows down the bed bugs and warns the victim.

Pest controllers say the UK is currently experiencing a steep rise in the number of bed bug infestations.

Prof Michael Siva-Jothy, from Sheffield University's Department of Animal and Plant Sciences, recruited 29 brave volunteers to test the theory further, watching the bedbugs as they found a place to feed and removing them only as they were about to bite.

He found that more layers of both longer visible hairs and finer, "vellus" hairs near the surface appeared to work as a deterrent to the insects, with the finer hairs also acting as an early warning system.


Prof Siva-Jothy said: "Our findings show that more body hairs mean better detection of parasites - the hairs have nerves attached to them and provide us with the ability to detect displacement."

He said they also slowed down the insect as it searched for a tasty spot to bite.
"I'm guessing it was January 2007, a meeting in Bethesda, we got a bag of bees and just started smashing them on the desk," Charles Wick said. "It was very complicated."

The Good Reverend Roger

#1
December 15, 2011, 12:25:46 AM
HAH!  The REAL joke is what happens to the little bastards when they finally burrow through all the hair...

...and find themselves out the other side.
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- TGRR, raising the bar at work.

Mesozoic Mister Nigel

#2
December 15, 2011, 12:27:55 AM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on December 15, 2011, 12:25:46 AM
HAH!  The REAL joke is what happens to the little bastards when they finally burrow through all the hair...

...and find themselves out the other side.

:x
"I'm guessing it was January 2007, a meeting in Bethesda, we got a bag of bees and just started smashing them on the desk," Charles Wick said. "It was very complicated."

Eater of Clowns

#3
December 15, 2011, 12:29:35 AM
This is definitely true.  Ticks cannot get through my leg hair.  I've picked so many of the little fuckers off as they scramble around that labyrinth.  I assume if I left them long enough they'd just starve to death.

Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on December 15, 2011, 12:25:46 AM
HAH!  The REAL joke is what happens to the little bastards when they finally burrow through all the hair...

...and find themselves out the other side.

:spittake:
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#4
December 15, 2011, 12:42:54 AM
ITT, Roger reveals that he is actually the hair monster from the Bugs Bunny cartoons. :lulz:
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#5
December 15, 2011, 12:44:49 AM
:spittake:
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#6
December 15, 2011, 12:48:07 AM
Quote from: Fuck You One-Eye on December 15, 2011, 12:42:54 AM
ITT, Roger reveals that he is actually the hair monster from the Bugs Bunny cartoons. :lulz:

:horrormirth:
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"My father says that almost the whole world is asleep. Everybody you know, everybody you see, everybody you talk to. He says that only a few people are awake, and they live in a state of constant, total amazement."

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If Luna was a furry, she'd sex humans and scream "BEASTIALITY!" at the top of her lungs at inopportune times.

Quote from: Nigel on March 24, 2011, 01:54:48 AM
I like the Luna one. She is a good one.

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#7
December 15, 2011, 12:49:30 AM
Quote from: Fuck You One-Eye on December 15, 2011, 12:42:54 AM
ITT, Roger reveals that he is actually the hair monster from the Bugs Bunny cartoons. :lulz:

Yep.  Engineer boots and eyeballs.  That's all there is under the hair.
" It's just that Depeche Mode were a bunch of optimistic loveburgers."
- TGRR, shaming himself forever, 7/8/2017

"Billy, when I say that ethics is our number one priority and safety is also our number one priority, you should take that to mean exactly what I said. Also quality. That's our number one priority as well. Don't look at me that way, you're in the corporate world now and this is how it works."
- TGRR, raising the bar at work.

Suu

#8
December 15, 2011, 12:50:20 AM
My Staaaaaaaaaarrrrrs...
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Our Lady of Perpetual Confusion; 1st Church of Discordia

"Add a dab of lavender to milk, leave town with an orange, and pretend you're laughing at it."

LMNO

#9
December 15, 2011, 01:50:16 PM

Luna

#10
December 15, 2011, 01:57:41 PM
Death-dealing hormone freak of deliciousness
Pagan-Stomping Valkyrie of the Interbutts™
Rampaging Slayer of Shit-Fountain Habitues

"My father says that almost the whole world is asleep. Everybody you know, everybody you see, everybody you talk to. He says that only a few people are awake, and they live in a state of constant, total amazement."

Quote from: The Payne on November 16, 2011, 07:08:55 PM
If Luna was a furry, she'd sex humans and scream "BEASTIALITY!" at the top of her lungs at inopportune times.

Quote from: Nigel on March 24, 2011, 01:54:48 AM
I like the Luna one. She is a good one.

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"Stop talking to yourself.  You don't like you any better than anyone else who knows you."

Mesozoic Mister Nigel

#11
December 15, 2011, 06:54:31 PM
"I'm guessing it was January 2007, a meeting in Bethesda, we got a bag of bees and just started smashing them on the desk," Charles Wick said. "It was very complicated."

LMNO

#12
December 15, 2011, 07:29:35 PM
Incidentally, I want those shoes.
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