Characteristics of Bed Bugs

What are bed bugs? Bed bugs are one of the most annoying pests around. You can imagine how film makers can make even these annoying insects the most lovable creatures, in the movies.

So, pictures of bed bugs in today's magazines and textbooks aren't as loathing. Pictures of bed bugs and bed bug bites that you might see these days are just like pictures you might see roaches, ticks, ants, bees, and other kinds of insects. They are even humanized, characterized, or given physical attributes of humans.

The True Picture

Examining the bed bug under a microscope, you will find that they are wingless insects. Bed bugs have waxy and protective skin covers, and aren't much different than any other insect.

Pictures of bed bugs show that bed bugs are very small, even microscopic. Looking at the from the top, they look like flattened organisms. This makes sense because they can creep and hide into the tiniest cracks, crevices, and holes in walls, floors, doors, and ceilings.

Their tiny size facilitates the need to take pictures of bed bugs using microscopes or magnifying glasses. Trying to look at a bed bug in person would prove very difficult, indeed, as they are too small to see with the naked eye.

If you have the super hero gift of Supervision, then you might probably be able to see and enjoy the physical attributes of bed bugs without magnifying glasses.

Where To Find Bed Bugs

Bed bugs don't normally leave their hiding places in the daytime, which is another reason why it is easier to just look at their pictures in magazines and textbooks.

These tiny creatures are nocturnal so night time is party time for them. At night, bed bugs can be seen coming out in search of blood. Vampiric little things, aren't they? Our human eyes are weaker and less focused at night so, we can hardly see these bed bugs when they are most active at night, hunting and partying.  If you feel like you are being plagues by bed bug bites, this may be the reason. 

Bed bugs are almost always found in crevices and small holes in the walls or on the floor.

Finding bed bugs is also tedious, requiring a lot of luck on the part of the searcher, or the person looking out for bed bugs. Why? Because full-grown, or adult, bed bugs can store food in their stomachs for about a year or more.

Unfortunately for you, you now know why pictures are more accessible than actual and live bed bugs, even if you are sure your place or bed is a breeding ground for these elusive creatures.  The same hold true for pictures of bed bugs bites.

Bed Bugs' Eggs

Bed bugs are too small for us to see them easily. Not surprisingly, their eggs are even smaller. Pictures of bed bugs’ eggs are almost always miniscule as it stands in real life already, but in actual encounters, they are truly microscopic!

They can be carried through the air by dust in the wind. This makes bed bugs’ eggs infamous. They can be easily spread because of their light weight and size.

Closer examination of bed bug egg pictures will show that their eggs are almost like all the other insect eggs, tiny, microscopic, but equipped with structures that can make them independent. So, bed bugs' eggs can hatch by themselves even without the mother bug around.

It takes just 10 days for bed bugs' eggs to hatch. By that time, new bed bugs are born into the world, adding to the rapidly multiplying bed bug population world wide.

Female bed bugs, as shown by some pictures acquired through the Internet and books, become like queen ants. They get much bigger before laying eggs. This is because female bed bugs can lay about 300 eggs in one pregnancy. How's that for
a family! 

Getting Rid of Bed Bugs

Through understanding and examination of bed bugs’ pictures, we can picture out and understand how pesticides work.

Through pictures, we can see that bed bugs have protective waxy coverings that make them the same as most insects. It is this characteristic that makes bed bugs, and other insects with the same features, able to survive harsh and rapid environment changes, and even extinction.  Think of the cockroach, and bed bugs are like that too!

There are many pesticides that target these protective coverings. Insecticides mostly contain powdered silicon and glass granules that break into this protective covering.

If you look closely at bed bugs' pictures, you will see that through the protective coverings, there are the bed bugs' vulnerable insides and bodies. Pesticides attack these structures, killing the bed bugs in a matter of minutes or hours.

It is much more desirable, that rather than looking at pictures of beg bug bites from yourself, or others who have fallen prey to these little vampires, to be looking at pictures of dead bed bugs who hopefully hadn't had the chance to feed on anything or anyone.