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

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    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 have flat or pill-shaped bodies. Color can range from milky white ...

  3. Bed bug - Wikipedia

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    Bed bugs spend much of their time in dark, hidden locations like mattress seams, or cracks in a wall. [2] Treatment is directed towards the symptoms. [2] Eliminating bed bugs from the home is often difficult, partly because bed bugs can survive up to approximately 300 days without feeding. [6] [8] Repeated treatments of a home may be required. [2]

  4. Insect winter ecology - Wikipedia

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    Insects that live under the water have different strategies for dealing with freezing than terrestrial insects do. Many insect species survive winter not as adults on land, but as larvae underneath the surface of the water. Under the water many benthic invertebrates will experience some subfreezing temperatures, especially in small streams.

  5. 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 ...

  6. Bed bug control techniques - Wikipedia

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    Bed bugs can be killed by a direct one-hour exposure to temperatures of −16 °C (3 °F), however, bed bugs have the capacity for rapid cold hardening, i.e. an hour-long exposure to 0 °C (32 °F) improved their subsequent tolerance of −14 to −16 °C (7 to 3 °F), [39] so this may need to be maintained for longer. Freezer temperatures at ...

  7. Aphids and other bad bugs can survive cold in veggie garden ...

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    The problem is that if we use the garden for those reasons, so do the bugs. Many insects can plague a vegetable garden through the growing season, including aphids, cucumber beetles, squash vine ...

  8. 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]

  9. What causes bed bugs? - AOL

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    The first thing to understand about bed bugs is that their only food source is blood. The common household bed bug needs to feed on human blood both to live and to breed.