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2. Bed bug - Wikipedia

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   Bed bugs can feed on warm-blooded animals other than humans, such as pets. The signs left by the bites are the same as in the case of people and cause identical symptoms (skin irritation, scratching etc.). [16] Bed bugs can infest poultry sheds and cause anemia and a decrease in egg production in hens. [17]

3. Cimicidae - Wikipedia

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   The Cimicidae are a family of small parasitic bugs that feed exclusively on the blood of warm-blooded animals. They are called cimicids or, loosely, bed bugs, though the latter term properly refers to the most well-known member of the family, Cimex lectularius, the common bed bug, and its tropical relation Cimex hemipterus. [2]

4. Traumatic insemination - Wikipedia

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   The male bed bug aedeagus has been shown to carry five (human) pathogenic microbes, and the exoskeleton of female bed bugs nine, including Penicillium chrysogenum, Staphylococcus saprophyticus, Stenotrophomonas maltophilia, Bacillus licheniformis, and Micrococcus luteus. Tests with blood agar have shown some of these species can survive in vivo ...

5. Bed bug season is here; here's how to avoid unwanted ... - AOL

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   Bed bugs are nocturnal bloodsuckers who prefer to feed on humans. N.C.-based A-1 Pest Control offers some parameters for identifying bed bugs: They are no bigger than the size of an apple seed and ...

6. Bed bug season is here. How to identify risks and avoid ... - AOL

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   Bed bugs are reddish-brown to brown, flat, oval-shaped insects that are normally 5 millimeters long when fully grown, according to Ohio State University's College of Food, Agricultural, and ...

7. Bad news: Bed bugs like the smell of your dirty laundry - AOL

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   Bed bugs are upsetting for a multitude of reasons. For one, they are tiny, flightless creatures that live only in crevices and holes, but that have somehow managed to spread across almost the ...

8. Hemiptera - Wikipedia

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   The bed bug, Cimex lectularius, is an external parasite of humans. It lives in bedding and is mainly active at night, feeding on human blood, generally without being noticed. [93] [94] Bed bugs mate by traumatic insemination; the male pierces the female's abdomen and injects his sperm into a secondary genital structure, the spermalege.

9. What causes bed bugs? - AOL

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   Bed bugs don’t have the ability to leap or fly, so to get close to their food source they hitch a ride on us and our belongings. Bed bugs don’t have the ability to leap or fly, so to get close ...