The phrase, “Don’t let the bed bugs bite,” has become less of a nursery rhyme and more of a cautionary tale, as these resilient ...

In a forthcoming study in the Journal of Economic Entomology, researchers led by Dae-Yun Kim at the Universiti of Sains Malaysia, show that the tropical bed bug, Cimex hemipterus, can readily climb ...

IT is well known that, during starvation, the bed-bug, like many other insects, swallows considerable quantities of air, which serve to maintain the body volume in place of the food and tissues that ...

A cosmopolitan creature is Cimex lectularius, an oval, flattened, mahogany-hued insect without wings and with mouth parts for piercing and sucking. Its principal food is human blood. Slum dwellers are ...