Designing our project required to have a holistic approach. We had to considered not only the efficacy, the safety and the security of our concept but also its societal impact. Thus, human practices have been the heart and the conductor. In only eight months of work, we have built a concrete idea of trap to get rid of these worldwide vermin, bed bugs, that complies with societal desires and needs. However, we are still at a prototype stage that requires to be optimized.

To this end, we have already begun to carry out tests with one of our collaborators, Crous Aix Marseille Avignon. They have few apartments that are infested with bed bugs and that has not been treated yet. For the moment, we only have tested our trap for a week. It is not optimal in terms of reproducibility but also because the fungus that we use, Beauveria bassiana, requires a minimum of ten days to be fully effective. In the very short-term, we must go on with these experiments.