Cirkil ‘Rag in a Bag’ Featured in Wired Magazine

VANCOUVER, B.C., Canada — Terramera announced its Rag in a Bag protocol to treat bed bugs in electronics and other clutter, was featured in Wired Magazine. The article reported on work done by Dr. Dini Miller to validate the new protocol in her labs at Virginia Tech.

Gwen Pearson, entomologist and Wired contributor, described the testing done to validate Rag in a Bag to treat bed bugs and reviewed Miller’s findings, noting “The results of Miller’s tests were spectacular; 100% mortality for eggs, nymphs, and adults after 7 days in bags containing shoes, purses, electronics, toys, and paperback books. The only exception to that perfect control record was hard-cover books. Bindings of books apparently provided a good enough hiding space that only 70% of bed bug adults were killed after one week. That’s still pretty good, and additional tests are being done to see if leaving hard-cover books in the bag for an additional week can finish off the stragglers.”

Added Karn Manhas, CEO of Terramera, “Having bed bugs is a painful experience, having to throw away thousands of dollars of your possessions is like adding insult to injury. It is rewarding to have developed Cirkil allowing people to effectively treat bed bugs hiding in their possessions and saving people with bed bugs, the added financial pain of throwing out and replacing infested items.”

For more information visit: www.terramera.com.