recent bites from bed bugs
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Another bed bug bite photo from entomologist Lou Sorkin, who feeds his “pet” bed bug colony regularly. As odd as this seems to someone going through bed bugs, researchers like Lou go through all this just to learn more about our enemy, Mr. Cimex Lectularius. […]

Left hand, mm rule, 6 hours after Cimex feeding
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Lou Sorkin says, of this bed bug bite photo:
6 hours after feeding 2 adults and 30 bed bug nymphs. Initially bite sites were raised bumps and somewhat itchy. Within 30 minutes swelling subsides, itching stops, but small red dots left where bed […]

bed bug harborage site
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Lou Sorkin took this photo in a seriously infested home.
He describes it:
“Bed bug harborage site in recessed screw hole on side of textured, molded plastic desk chair. Opposite side of chair had no bed bugs in the screw hole.”
This is a helpful reminder to people that bed […]

bed bugs with german cockroach
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Lou Sorkin describes this photo he took at a site of severe infestation:
“On a wooden CD shelf, bed bug nymphs and german cockroach nymph cohabitate. Droppings are from both roach and bug.”
We have heard cockroaches will eat bed bugs. Here, they’re actually living and defecating […]

New York Magazine has a new bed bug story dated November 12th (print edition of 11/19), by Melissa Kirsch.
It contains lots of solid advice about not picking up curbside furniture, being wary of Craigslist finds, and searching for fecal spots and blood stains. But it also contains some advice we don’t normally […]

Tune into WBAI 99.5 in New York City tomorrow morning at 10:40 to hear longtime Bedbugger contributor Lou Sorkin (entomologist from the American Museum of Natural History) talk about bed bugs (and other bugs). I am not sure what proportion of the program will discuss bed bugs, but we can hope it will […]