Bed Bug Life Cycle

To win the war against bed bugs, it is important to know the bed bug life cycle and to understand their procreation and reproduction habits.

Bed bugs reproduce in the normal manner, yet their cycle of reproduction is very high. Theoretically the female bed bug can lay up to twelve eggs a day with the average being around five.

They like to lay their eggs in dark, uneven places, in tiny crevices.

The reason why they probably earned the title “bed bug” is because a bed is the ideal environment for them to lay their eggs.

Once the eggs have been laid, they can take from six to seventeen days for them to hatch with the average being eleven days.

The newly born, but not too cute bed bugs are known as nymphs. Like any newly born baby they need to eat and to the best of knowledge available to science, bed bugs do not breast feed.

The nymphs go out looking for food and the best source is that warm chunk of human flesh and blood sharing their bed which makes an ideal source for food.

If they nymphs do not find a source for food then quickly they will die. However if they find one, they are on the gravy train.

Their development will be rapid, growing to a full sized adult within 21 days. They will thrive and reproduce in the warm environment of a bed, with their evening meal being delivered to it every 24 hours or so.

The human has become a victim and to a certain extent a slave to the need of the bed bug to thrive. By raising the temperature in the bed, they accelerate the bed bug’s development considerably.

It is a viscous circle that there is no way of arresting till the presence of the bed bugs is detected and radical steps taken to drive them out.

In the mean time the human meal ticket is blissfully unaware that very night dozens of bed bugs are living of them. The bed bug is a minute being and his bite does not hurt.

The only symptom that the human will feel is when they eventually become ill due to the fact that their blood has become infected by the input of saliva that the bed bug leaves behind every time they feast on human blood. They will go through a total of five cycles of molting before they will reach their adult size.

In most cases, from start to finish, the egg will go from being a small egg to being a full grown adult in as little as 21 days. Till now no one has been able to accurately assess what the natural life span of a bed bug might be in the ideal environment detailed. It could be up to six weeks or even more.


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