Do all bedbugs look alike – quarter-inch long and reddish brown?
That is the adult stage only, so the five immature stages and the egg go without notice. … They are not reddish brown, they are translucent white in the first instar [nymph], continuing through a straw color up through the fifth instar [nymph]… [Nymphs vary from being plump and red, to nearly flat with dark brown masses of blood being digested in their gut. Fed adults, meanwhile, are plump and reddish brown. Adults are around a quarter inch in length, but the immature first instar nymph is about as long as a credit card is thick, according to Sorkin.] Do bedbugs spread disease? With all the research that began when bedbugs were a problem 50 years ago and sort of waned and now is increasing, there has been no evidence they transmit pathogens to people even though well over 20 to 40 different pathogens have been isolated from bedbug bodies, but that is because they fed on people who had those pathogens in their blood system. But they never transferred [the pathogens] in studies to the
