LET THE BED BUGS BITE..

Pests feed on me as I bid to beat them

- ISOBEL DICKINSON

A BOFFIN is itching to find a way to beat bed bugs.

Pest expert Dr Richard Naylor even lets them suck his blood at night in his quest to find their weaknesses.

Richard has studied bed bugs for over two decades and runs a laboratory breeding and researching them.

He said: "Bed bugs are inherently difficult to study. Once found, most people want them eradicated immediately, so there is usually no time to conduct any meaningful field trial.