{"id":7889,"date":"2026-02-22T09:58:19","date_gmt":"2026-02-22T07:58:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/kettinki\/?p=7889"},"modified":"2026-02-22T09:58:19","modified_gmt":"2026-02-22T07:58:19","slug":"water-is-bed-bugs-kryptonite-the-parasites-avoid-wet-surfaces-at-all-costs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/kettinki\/linkki\/7889","title":{"rendered":"<svg class=\"svg-icon svg-icon-link\" aria-labelledby=\"title-69d7af6679b91\" role=\"img\"><title id=\"title-69d7af6679b91\">Link<\/title> <use href=\"#link\" xlink:href=\"#link\"><\/use> <\/svg>7889"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"vlp-link-container vlp-layout-basic\"><a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2026-02-bed-bugs-kryptonite-parasites-surfaces.html\" class=\"vlp-link\" title=\"Water is bed bugs&#039; kryptonite: The parasites avoid wet surfaces at all costs\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\"><\/a><div class=\"vlp-layout-zone-side\"><div class=\"vlp-block-2 vlp-link-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"max-width: 150px;\" width=\"150\" height=\"84\" src=\"https:\/\/mummila.net\/kettinki\/files\/2026\/02\/water-is-bed-bugs-kryp.jpg\" class=\"attachment-150x999 size-150x999\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mummila.net\/kettinki\/files\/2026\/02\/water-is-bed-bugs-kryp.jpg 800w, https:\/\/mummila.net\/kettinki\/files\/2026\/02\/water-is-bed-bugs-kryp-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mummila.net\/kettinki\/files\/2026\/02\/water-is-bed-bugs-kryp-768x432.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/div><\/div><div class=\"vlp-layout-zone-main\"><div class=\"vlp-block-0 vlp-link-title\">Water is bed bugs' kryptonite: The parasites avoid wet surfaces at all costs<\/div><div class=\"vlp-block-1 vlp-link-summary\">[The experiment showed] that all bed bugs\u2014males, females, old and young alike\u2014avoid wet surfaces. [Smaller], younger bed bugs make a faster U-turn when they realize they're approaching a wet surface, showing the younger insects are more sensitive to water and dampness.<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14097],"tags":[30813,33128,32196,22287],"class_list":["post-7889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-in-english","tag-dong-hwan-choe","tag-jorge-bustamante","tag-journal-of-ethology","tag-university-of-california","post_format-post-format-link"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/kettinki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7889","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/kettinki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/kettinki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/kettinki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/kettinki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7889"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/kettinki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7889\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7891,"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/kettinki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7889\/revisions\/7891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/kettinki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/kettinki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/kettinki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}