DIATHOR Lethal Bed Bug Harbourage

A READY-TO-USE HARBOURAGE FOR COMPLETE AND RELIABLE PROTECTION AGAINST BED BUG INFESTATIONS

• Simple to use
• 12 months protection

Bed bugs are among the most damaging pest challenges facing any property where people sleep or rest. A single confirmed infestation doesn’t just cause irritating bites - it triggers scathing online reviews, compensation claims, and lasting reputational damage that no marketing budget can quickly undo.

Over the past 25 years, bed bugs have staged a dramatic global comeback, driven by insecticide resistance. Modern populations have evolved the ability to withstand multiple classes of chemical treatment, turning routine pest management into a costly, disruptive, and time-consuming exercise.

Worse, sub-lethal exposure to poorly performing insecticides actively accelerates resistance, making the next treatment even less likely to succeed, and the next complaint increasingly inevitable.

BECAUSE DIATHOR KILLS THROUGH A PHYSICAL MODE OF ACTION, RESISTANCE IS SIMPLY NOT POSSIBLE.

WHY OTHER DEVICES FAIL

The market has responded with a flood of products that deliver little more than false hope and the science backs this up. As Doggett and Lee (2023) demonstrated, the vast majority of bed bug traps simply do not work¹.

Most traps and monitors rely on plastics with smooth or adhesive surfaces. The scientific evidence is unambiguous, bed bugs are not drawn to these materials. They want texture, warmth, and the snug tactile contact that comes from tight, crevice-like spaces. Plastic traps cannot replicate this. No amount of engineering can override millions of years of hardwired bed bug instinct, and products that ignore this fundamental biology will continue to underperform.

DIATHOR, A SMARTER APPROACH - BUILT ON BED BUG BEHAVIOUR

The DIATHOR LETHAL BED BUG HARBOURAGE was conceptualised by Dr Stephen Doggett, Director of Medical Entomology at NSW Health and arguably the world’s foremost bed bug researcher, with over 450 papers and publications to his name. It works with bed bug behaviour rather than fighting against their biology.

Bed bugs are instinctively drawn to tight, snug harbourages. Cracks, crevices, and textured surfaces where they feel secure. Premium quality cardboard, with the correct flute dimensions, delivers precisely the tactile environment they prefer, which is exactly why DIATHOR is built around it.

The harbourage is coated internally with a precisely engineered blend of three amorphous silicates, each with different properties, that kills through a purely physical mode of action, abrading the bed bug’s outer skeleton and driving desiccation. Because this is a mechanical approach rather than neurotoxic, resistance is simply not possible. It delivers unparalleled efficacy against even the most resilient populations that have survived every conventional treatment.

HOW DIATHOR INTERCEPTS BED BUGS

DIATHOR delivers a lethal harbourage where bed bugs naturally want to hide. 

Nocturnal by nature, bed bugs spend their daylight hours in hiding and travel to their host at night, in search of a blood meal. They navigate by warmth, body scent, and exhaled carbon dioxide.

They will always prefer to rest as close to their host as possible, returning to the same harbourage after every blood meal. Placed at the head end of the bed or close to wherever people or pets rest, DIATHOR intercepts them on that journey. They enter, settle, and do not leave. That’s why we call it a lethal harbourage.

Better still, the coating transfers between insects on contact, eliminating bed bugs that never entered the harbourage directly and extending the kill zone beyond the device itself.

SIMPLE TO DEPLOY WITH NO DISRUPTIONS

Simply ensure surfaces around the harbourage are free from dust and any prior insecticidal spray treatments, since many insecticides act as a deterrent.

Then place a minimum of two to four harbourages per bed or sleeping area at the head end, or under sofas, chairs, pet bedding, and anywhere else people regularly rest. Replace annually.

DIATHOR is a preventative treatment and deployment couldn’t be simpler...

• No sprays
• No heat treatments
• No room closures

THE DIATHOR CONFIDENCE GUARANTEE

We back our DIATHOR LETHAL BED BUG HARBOURAGE with more than words. If a room correctly protected by DIATHOR LETHAL BED BUG HARBOURAGES suffers a verified bed bug infestation, we will reimburse one night’s accommodation cost for that room - up to $300 - because a product this confident in its science should carry consequences if it falls short*.

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* Conditions apply. See website www.Ensystex.com.au for details.

¹ Doggett, Stephen L, and Chow-Yang Lee. “Historical and Contemporary Control Options Against Bed Bugs, Cimex spp.” Annual review of entomology vol. 68 (2023): 169-190. doi:10.1146/annurev-ento-120220-015010