What does a bed bug look like?
Bed Bugs tend to hide in small cracks and crevices close to a human environment. Their bodies can flatten to allow them to conceal themselves in cracks and crevices around the room and within furniture. They can be found in the bed frame, mattress, box spring, head board, in furniture crevices, behind baseboards, wallpaper, upholstery, electrical switchplates, and picture frames. Clutter around the room offers additional hiding places and increases the difficulty in eliminating bed bugs once they have become established. They hide during the day and come out at night to feed on the blood of sleeping persons. They prefer humans, but in the absence of humans they feed on mice, rats, bats, migratory birds, chickens, cows and other animals. They can be brought into the house on a cat or dog, or in second-hand furniture, bedding, and clothes. Bedbugs have no wings so they travel only short distances on their own. The bed bug uses its mouth parts adapted to piercing skin in order to obtain i
