Really Big Bed Bug

If you believe that your home has fallen victim to a bed bug infestation it may be time to conduct some research to make sure that the little critters really are bed bugs.

Really big bed bug.

Although bedbugs aren t known to spread disease they can cause other public health and economic issues. An adult bed bug looks not unlike a lentil round brownish and flat. On average though they appear about the size of an apple seed. The picture shows one of mine posing with my watch.

The average adult bed bug size ranges from 1 4 to 3 16 of an inch in length. Once engorged the pest s body expands into a longer more cylindrical shape. Unfortunately there are plenty of bugs mistaken for bed bugs and you need to know which is which. Being flat they can hide in the smallest of cracks behind wallpaper in the joints of the bed frame or their favourite in the buttons and seams of the mattress.

They don t jump or fly but they can move pretty fast. A bed bug that has eaten a blood meal will be bigger than a regular one. I also learned that once you find out you have bed bugs they are very costly to get rid of upwards of 1500. The adult insects have a flat body shape compared to the nymphs especially after they feed.

Their flat wide bodies look significantly bigger after they ve taken a blood meal so a bed bug s actual size varies depending on whether the pests have fed. Bed bug bites are very painful and itchy and are often mistaken for mosquito bites or pimples.