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Bed Bug

Bed Bug Pest Profile

bed_bug_01 bed_bug_02Common Name:
Bed Bug

Scientific Name:
Cimex lectularius

Order and Family:
Hemiptera, Cimicidae – Blood Feeders

Pest Control Service:
Bed Bug Treatment

Description:
The adult is brown, flattened, oval, wingless, and about 4mm to 5mm in length when unfed. Newly hatched bugs are tan and somewhat translucent. When fed, the body becomes swollen and elongated and the color becomes dull red to a darker brown.

Food:
Bed bugs depend on blood for their complete nutrition. Bed bugs most commonly attack man but may also use other hosts including bats, chickens, and other domestic animals. Bed bugs grasp human skin with their forelegs, pierce the skin, and inject anticoagulant and anesthetic-containing saliva. Bed bugs feed at night, approximately an hour before dawn. However, if the conditions are favorable, they also feed during the day. Feeding takes 3-12 minutes. Adult bedbugs can survive without a meal for a year or longer.

Life Cycle:
Females can deposit one to five eggs a day and may lay 200 to 500 eggs in a lifetime. The eggs hatch within 10-14 days after being laid. The nymph stage lasts 6 weeks, undergoing 5 molts.

Habitat:
Bed bugs can live between wooden floorboards, in furniture, in bed frames, in mattresses, in wall voids, and even behind peeling paint.

Range:
Temperate climates throughout the world and have been known since prehistoric times.

Discussion:
Although they have not been linked to transmission of any disease, they have been shown to harbor the causative organisms of plague, relapsing fever, tularemia, Q fever, and hepatitis B. The transmission of hepatitis is theoretically possible by contamination from crushing the bug, contamination from infected feces, or from regurgitation during the bite. Transmission of trypanosomes has been demonstrated in bats.