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.

Unfortunately there are plenty of bugs mistaken for bed bugs and you need to know which is which. An adult bed bug looks not unlike a lentil round brownish and flat. I also learned that once you find out you have bed bugs they are very costly to get rid of upwards of 1500. A bed bug that has eaten a blood meal will be bigger than a regular one.

The average adult bed bug size ranges from 1 4 to 3 16 of an inch in length. Although bedbugs aren t known to spread disease they can cause other public health and economic issues. Bed bug bites are very painful and itchy and are often mistaken for mosquito bites or pimples. The adult insects have a flat body shape compared to the nymphs especially after they feed.

Typically bed bug nymphs will be smaller than a fully fed adult bed bug. Once engorged the pest s body expands into a longer more cylindrical shape. They don t jump or fly but they can move pretty fast. 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.

The picture shows one of mine posing with my watch. 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.