Bed Bugs
Bed bugs love blood and are not picky eaters.
Fiction! Bed bugs are picky eaters and will only feed on blood that is fresh from a live host. They will not feed on spilled blood.
Bed bugs can multiply quickly as the female adults can lay up to 5 eggs in a day!
Fact! Adult female bed bugs can lay 5 eggs in one day!!!!!
Bed bugs are small so they do bite a live host but do not consume a lot of blood.
Fiction! Bed bugs are known to consume up to 7 times their one body weight in blood!
Bed bugs only live in beds.
Fiction! Bed bugs can be almost anywhere. Couches, beds, behind outlets or light switches, in bedside lamps, in purses, luggage, books, stuffed animals, floor boards, cabinets, books, etc!
Crazy Facts:
When you switch on the light switch, you should make sure a new friend is not hitching a ride on your finger! Bed bugs can be in light switches, outlets, etc.! EWWWW!
There is a biologist named Regina Gries that let 20,000 bed bugs have a feast on her for science research! The Woman Who Let 200,000 Bed Bugs Bite Her—For Science! | WIRED
Bed bugs love blood and are not picky eaters.
Fiction! Bed bugs are picky eaters and will only feed on blood that is fresh from a live host. They will not feed on spilled blood.
Bed bugs can multiply quickly as the female adults can lay up to 5 eggs in a day!
Fact! Adult female bed bugs can lay 5 eggs in one day!!!!!
Bed bugs are small so they do bite a live host but do not consume a lot of blood.
Fiction! Bed bugs are known to consume up to 7 times their one body weight in blood!
Bed bugs only live in beds.
Fiction! Bed bugs can be almost anywhere. Couches, beds, behind outlets or light switches, in bedside lamps, in purses, luggage, books, stuffed animals, floor boards, cabinets, books, etc!
Crazy Facts:
When you switch on the light switch, you should make sure a new friend is not hitching a ride on your finger! Bed bugs can be in light switches, outlets, etc.! EWWWW!
There is a biologist named Regina Gries that let 200,000 bed bugs have a feast on her for science research! The Woman Who Let 200,000 Bed Bugs Bite Her—For Science! | WIRED