• Detects bedbug infestations early
• Provides an early detection mechanism for bedbug outbreaks worldwide
• Anyone can learn to use NightWatch in 5 minutes!
• NightWatch is exempt from EPA Registration because it is used solely for surveillance, detection, and monitoring, and because it contains no substances toxic to insects.
• CO₂ sold separately (Rhino Power CO₂ bottle may be purchased Lowe's, Wal-Mart or sporting goods stores that sell paint ball equipment.)
• Under optimal operating run time (10:00 p.m. to 6:00 a.m.), the 16 oz. CO 2 bottle lasts for 7 nights and NightWatch™ lure should be replaced every 7 days. One unit covers a 16'x 16' sized room. Additional units may be required for larger rooms/suites. Multiple monitors should be used in these cases to ensure quantification of infestation.
  The NightWatch Bed Bug Monitor Trap from BioSensory Inc. features new technology that literally attracts and traps bed bugs in an infested room. Hotel and apartment owners can use NightWatch to detect if a room or unit has bed bugs, if a treated room is safe for occupancy, how bad an infestation is, or even to control and eradicate an infestation.
• The NightWatch™ Bed Bug Monitor Trap is scientifically designed to trap bed bugs with a proprietary, 7-part kairomone lure which uses the pests' own natural, biological attractants against them. By mimicking the CO2 (exhaled breath) and heat of a human body, NightWatch combines with this powerful lure to make one of the most effective bed bug traps available. Safe for use around children and pets (when used as directed). One trap will cover a 16' x 16' room. For larger spaces, additional traps may be needed.

Once eradicated in the United States in the 1950s by the use of DDT, bedbugs are back with a vengeance infesting clean and tidy homes, five-star hotels, college dorms, and living spaces across the country and beyond. Bedbugs have been identified as a rapidly emerging public health pest by the Environmental Protection Agency.

BioSensory developed the NightWatch Bedbug Monitor based on knowledge of a bedbug's physiology and an understanding of how the pest seeks a blood meal, combined with extensive field and laboratory testing.

Because bedbugs bite once every 7 to 10 days, a new infestation of a few bedbugs often goes unnoticed. It is undetectable by the person being bitten and by the most expert professionals in the field. At first, the person thinks the bite is a pimple, then a rash. By the time a skin reaction is recognized as insect bites, the infestation has grown to hundreds of bedbugs and eggs and is expensive to eliminate.

NightWatch caught over 1,000 bed bugs in one night and almost 10,000 bed bugs in the same field trial.*

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NightWatch performance has been tested to 99.98%
chance of detection over a period of 7 days

NightWatch performance has been tested by practitioners in the field and documented in the most prestigious entomology publication, The Journal of Medical and Veterinary Entomology (2009; 22, 01-7) published by the Royal Entomological Society ¹. Dr. John F. Anderson of the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station tested NightWatch prototypes for over one year. His many months of lab tests indicate that an infestation of 5 male and 5 female bedbugs has a 99.98% chance of detection by the NightWatch over a period of 7 days. Data shows that NightWatch captured bedbugs in laboratory tests, in infested unoccupied apartments (with or without furniture), and in an occupied apartment. In an extremely infested multi-unit public housing facility, almost 10,000 bedbugs were captured — after professional chemical and steam treatments were applied," according to Dr. Anderson.

NightWatch is designed to function as a lure and monitor, as it mimics a living, breathing human body — combining CO₂, a proprietary kairomone lure, and a patented thermal lure for a powerful three-pronged attractant and trapping system. When bedbugs approach to feed on what they think is a human, they fall into the pitfall traps made of highly polished material and cannot escape. NightWatch can catch both mature and immature bedbugs, and since the monitor's detection period spans the 7-10 days bedbugs take between meals, it can detect infestations the very first time they try to bite. No other available product or technology detects new infestations so quickly.

BioSensory recommends NightWatch Bedbug Monitor as one part of an Integrated Pest Management program (inspection, treatment and monitoring, reinspection).

NightWatch Technical Features

Typical Protocol

NightWatch trap covers a room approx. 16' x 16' in size. Additional units required for larger rooms/suites. If there are multiple sofas and upholstered chairs, incremental monitoring devices would be recommended.

For Active Infestation:

(1) Install a fresh NightWatch lure into the unit
(2) Connect the CO 2 supply
(3) Plug into electrical outlet
(4) Turn unit on
(5) Set the timer
(6) Place trap under the bed near the headboard or next to the bed and start trapping bed bugs overnight.

In the morning, empty the trapped bugs from the trap's pit and remove them from the premises in a sealed refuse bag. Repeat until trap count is zero for at least three consecutive days.

If the premises have not been treated with additional EPA-registered insecticide(s) and/or steam heat, this protocol should be considered. Can be used as part of an Integrated Pest Management program of treatment with EPA-registered insecticides as an option.