Are bed bugs real insects that people find in their beds?
I have a friend who went on a cruise and she and her roommate had a terrible infestation of these awful things in the bedding for the whole cruise. She had little bites all over her when she returned. So, she learned they were real the hard way. I didn’t ever really know about them until then either. Information on bedbugs: A bedbug (or bed bug) is a small nocturnal insect of the family Cimicidae that lives by hematophagy, or by feeding on the blood of humans and other warm-blooded hosts The common bedbug (Cimex lectularius) is the species best adapted to human environments. It is found in temperate climates throughout the world and feeds on human blood. Other species include Cimex hemipterus, found in tropical regions, which also infests poultry and bats, and Leptocimex boueti, found in the tropics of West Africa and South America, which infests bats and humans. Cimex pilosellus and Cimex pipistrella primarily infest bats, while Haematosiphon inodora, a species of North America, prima