What Bed Bugs Look Like

It has been ascertained that nobody likes bed bugs or would choose them as a family pet, or hang their pictures on a wall. In an average lifetime, very few humans will ever encounter a bed bug, and it is infinitely better that way.

For a start, a bed bug is small, and difficult to be viewed by the human eye. Basically their presence in your home can only be detected by the traces that they leave behind, such as their skin which they constantly cast of and molt.

They also leave little traces of excrement here and there. These are traces that only an expert in the behavioral patterns of a bed bug will know how to recognize.

Until they find a bed to live in, a bed bug is a pretty weak and pointless little beast to have in your home, and only a minor irritant.

No one knows for sure if the bed bug instinctively searches for beds to live in, or just gets lucky by finding one.

What is for sure is that the warm and friendly environment that a bed provides them is the ideal place for them to be. Bed bugs thrive on heat, darkness and regular sources of food.

All these advantages in life, the bed and its occupant(s) provide them.

So this is why it would be interesting to compare a bug and a bed bug, and the only way would be under a microscope.

What should you be looking for are these characteristics:

As adults they are a kind of rusty brown color
They have an oval, flat shape
They are on average about a quarter of an inch long

After feeding, they swell up considerably and become a darker red color.
They have a beak like aperture, through which they feed.
A fully developed bed bug has wings, yet they do not fly.

Only a trained eye will be able to point out the differences between a bed bug and a bug of the same species. Without giving it too much thought the beg bug will be bigger, stronger and fitter. Simply because they have found the ideal environment in which to breed.


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