One type of Ultrasonic device on the market today.
The story points out ultrasonic frequency pest control devices are available and marketed to the public now and that "despite the lack of evidence for the efficacy of such devices, they continue to be sold and new versions targeting bed bugs are readily available". Here are some excerpts from this story, showing once again, bed bugs are not a do-it-yourself problem.
"According to a soon-to-be-published article in the Journal of Economic Entomology, commercial devices that produce ultrasound frequencies are NOT promising tools for repelling bed bugs. In "Efficacy of Commercially Available Ultrasonic Pest Repellent Devices to Affect Behavior of Bed Bugs (Hemiptera: Cimicidae)," , authors K. M. Yturralde and R. W. Hofstetter report the results of their tests of four commercially available electronic pest repellent devices designed to repel insect and mammalian pests by using sound."
"The devices, which were purchased online, were used according to manufacturers' instructions. A sound arena was created for each ultrasonic device, in addition to a control arena which featured no sound. However, the authors found that there were no significant differences in the number of bed bugs observed in the control (no sound) and sound arenas, and that bed bugs were neither deterred nor attracted to the arena with the sound device".
These types of devices often claim to repel many different types of pests.
They do not help with bed bugs.
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