Every order is customable upon your request. See here for prices and conditions.

For training bed bug detection dogs, we can offer various solutions, read more here.

Insecticide resistance assessment of our strains, i.e. their suitability for insecticide efficacy testing, is under development. For details, see here.

Delivery of larger numbers of bed bugs (>100 per strain) depend on current availability and may take some time (with respect to bed bug life cycle). For our rearing methods, see here.

London (UK) susceptible lab strain. No insecticide resistance, baseline strain for resistance level assessment. Lively bedbugs, easy to detect by dogs.

Beroun (CZ) field strain. High resistance to permethrin. Most likely harboring L925I mutation in the sodium channel gene causing pyrethroid resistance. Less active bed bugs, challenging for dogs to detect.

London (UK) field strain. Moderate resistance to permethrin, susceptible to chlorfenapyr. Lively bedbugs, easy to detect by dogs.

Prague - Nusle (CZ) field strain. High resistance to permethrin. Most likely with L925I mutation. 

Kenya field strain. Presumably moderate insecticide resistance.

Bat associated populations. A host lineage genetically and ecologically distinct from the human associated bed bugs (further reading here or here). No insecticide resistance, as never exposed to insecticides (read here). We keep altogether 8 different populations from Myotis myotis roosts, one from M. emarginatus.

This species, once limited to the tropics, is now also found in Europe (learn more here). It's also known for multiple mechanisms of insecticide resistance, but differing control methods from common bed bugs aren't established. Tropical bed bugs are better climbers (read here), impacting trap design. Currently one strain is available, more to come. 

Kenya field strain.  Presumably high resistance to pyrethroids. M918I and L1014F mutations in the sodium channel gene causing pyrethroid resistance.

This species, which occasionally finds its way into homes from bat roosts and has been known to bite (for more, read here), has not shown to reproduce in human bedding. Establishing and maintaining laboratory lines for this species can be challenging. 

Dubá (CZ) strain (Myotis myotis roost). Only a restricted quantity, primarily for specialized purposes like scent detection training, is currently accessible.