Nighttime biter

Usage examples of bedbug.

Household Pests, Hugo Hartnack complained in the 1930s about a chemical used for bedbugs that was so caustic it took the finish off metal beds.

Besides any leftover food or garbage you care to leave out for them, they will eat wallpaper paste, bookbindings, the glue in grocery bags, soap, dirty clothes, papers, bedbugs, other live and dead insects, and stale beer.

Each morning my I N S I L E N C E 231 mother folded the small cot, finally rid of bedbugs, on which she and my father slept and wheeled it into the bedroom in which my brother and I slept in our own beds.

Operating with one hand, beating the rats offa my patient with the other and bedbugs and scorpions rain down from the ceiling.

Often bedbug bites have a characteristic pattern - they occur in rows of three on the skin.

He also described a bedbug trap that consisted of painting a strip of special glass-like enamel all around the lower walls of the room, leaving one small opening.

This seems only fair, because spiders have traditionally taken the blame for many a bedbug bite.

One famous entomologist who specialized in bedbugs collected them in hotels, good and bad, across the country.

Newly-hatched bedbugs are paler versions of adults, and they require blood feeding before they can reach adulthood.

Furthermore, a number of victims have described seeing bedbugs walk up the wall, travel across the ceiling and get in position to drop down on the bed.

A few such bugs placed in a room would clear out all the bedbugs within a few weeks.

When we add to this the additional torments of bedbugs and body lice, we can only surmise that life before washing machines and vacuum cleaners was indeed full of itching and scratching.

They carried bedbugs in a special box, open to the air on one side, and when the bedbugs smelled bloodonly human bloodthey made excited little cries that could be picked up by sensitive microphones in the boxes .

When the mottled flame leaked into the room, Garadolo turned to his captive, stopping to scratch himself thoroughly, as if his bedbugs had already begun their nightly feast.

I might have slept better, but there were bedbugs, or one overlarge bug romping under my sheets last night, kept me tossing and turning.