Virginia Tech researchers trying to find way to get rid of bed bugs

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This story could make you feel itchy all over.

Researchers who are trying to make them go away, but nothing seems to be working.

Bed bugs are just flat out ugly and gross. Like cockroaches, they won't go away.

"We've got bed bug problems all over the United States," said Dini Miller, of Virginia Tech urban pest management.

Inside the Dodson Urban Pest Management Lab at Virginia Tech, Miller teaches students how easily bed bugs can spread.

"There's lots of places for the bed bugs to hide, Miller said. They can move through the walls from one unit to another."

Across the hall, graduate student and lab tech Mark Petersen is breathing hard on a cup full of nasty bed bugs.

"I'm trying to get them excited so they can let go of the mesh screen. They react to CO2, Petersen said.

Using tweezers, Petersen is separating the male bed bugs from the females. Yes, he can tell the difference.

"I have felt that they're crawling around me sometimes even if I know they're not, Petersen said. You spend all day looking at them. It gets in your head."

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Virginia Tech researchers trying to find way to get rid of bed bugs

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