Bed bugs are a dark red to brown color, but they can be light brown if they haven’t been feeding.
“They will inject an anesthetic prior to biting, so people won’t feel it. “They’ve become what I consider the perfect parasite, because their mouthparts are kind of interesting,” says Gibb. And that itching is due to the chemicals the bed bug inserts into your body during the bite, adds Rajotte. They’re just annoying and you need to get rid of them.” Are bed bug bites itchy? Do they hurt?Īlthough some people will say a bed bug bite hurts somewhat-though not as intensely as the sting of a bee, for example- most complaints are due to the itching the bites cause, says Gibb. And so while they’re annoying and all that, they’re not going to harm your children or anything like that. “Unlike mosquitoes and ticks and things, which can transmit some pretty bad diseases, bed bugs do not. “They’ve never been shown to transmit any diseases,” says Rajotte. In fact, they don’t even transmit anything dangerous to you. “A parasite would have a hard time surviving if it killed its host, and these do not.” Yes, they might cost you a pretty penny and can be a pain to get rid of, but bed bugs can’t do any serious damage to your body.
These Pictures Can Help You Identify a Tick BiteĪnd if bed bugs are the cause of your bites, realize there’s no urgent need to panic.Another key identifier? Look for black spots on your sheets, mattress, and mattress cover, which could be bed bug feces. Baby bed bugs are also brownish in color, but pinhead-sized. They also like to camp out behind the headboard, behind any pictures on the wall, and in electrical sockets.Īdult bed bugs are about the size of an apple seed and are very flat from top to bottom-almost as thin as a piece of paper-with a brownish color, says Rajotte. They naturally like to hide in your mattress, especially in the corners, near the head end, and in the cord that goes around it. Where do bed bugs hide?Īnother way to determine if your bites come from bed bugs is to look for the insects themselves. In fact, if you have screens on your windows-thereby keeping out other insects that might bite-but are still waking up with a line of 3 or 4 bites on your arm, it’s safe to suspect that bed bugs might be to blame, says Edwin Rajotte, Ph.D., a professor of entomology at Penn State University.
MATTRESS BED BUGS SKIN
“They probe the skin in several different places, I think probably to find best access to draw blood,” says Gibb. Bed bug bites show up in a line, most often in a cluster of 3 to 4 bites.
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