fast facts

fast facts

Bedbugs are usually no more than º inch in length in their adult state and can engorge themselves with human blood in less than 15 minutes, causing their bodies to swell to as much as three times its usual size.

Bedbugs can lay between one and five eggs per day with an incubation period of 10 days.

Newly hatched bedbugs require five blood feedings to reach adult size.

Adult female bedbugs can lay more than 200 eggs during their lifetime.

Bedbugs most often feed at night.

Bedbugs are not known to transmit any human blood-borne pathogens.

Bedbugs have a rather pungent odor which is caused by an oillike liquid they emit.

Bedbugs are most often carried into houses by clothes, luggage, furniture and bedding.