Tune in today as Dr. Jody Green, of the Arthro-Pod gang, sits down to interview living legend, Dr. Harold Harlan. They discuss Dr. Harlan's career as an entomologist as well as the history of his infamous bed bug colony. Plus, they dive in to the history of the modern bed bug resurgence. All that and more on Arthro-Pod! Drs. Green and Harlan at the Entomological Society of America 2019 meeting Show Notes-Possible reasons for resurgence include: o   Increase in international travel o   Changes in pest management o   Insecticide resistance mechanisms o   Lack of reaction to bed bugs o   Adaptation of bed bugs to alternative hosts o   Bed bugs and poultry farms o   Ability of bed bugs to go months without a blood meal o   High density housing and high turnover   Resources:   Book: Monograph of Cimicidae Usinger 1966 (pdf) https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Monograph-of-Cimicidae-(Hemiptera%2C-Heteroptera)-Hoogstraal-Usinger/a110401bcd457acd5c19e3971b5f4473de498c70   Book: Advances in the Biology and Management of Modern Bed Bugs Editors: Doggett, Miller and Lee 2018 https://www.wiley.com/en-us/Advances+in+the+Biology+and+Management+of+Modern+Bed+Bugs-p-9781119171522   Article: PCT Magazine from November 2011 Love at First Bite https://www.pctonline.com/article/pct1111-bed-bugs-scientist/    Bed bugs evolved before their bat hosts and did not co-speciate with ancient humans Roth et al. 2019 https://www.cell.com/action/showPdf?pii=S0960-9822%2819%2930477-4 Questions? Comments? Follow the show on Twitter @Arthro_PodshowFollow the hosts on Twitter @bugmanjon, @JodyBugsmeUNL, and @MSkvarla36Get the show through Apple Podcasts!Subscribe to our feed on Feedburner!   We're also on Stitcher! This episode is freely available on archive.org and is licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ Beginning/ending theme: "There It Is" by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0