I copied them all here, but Wordpress couldn’t manage all the characters. But you can see them all here (scroll down).

Arabic, Chinese (Traditional and Simplified), Czech, Danish, Dutch, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latvian, Lithuanian, Norwegian, Polish, Brazilian Portuguese, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, and Turkish.

Far from linguistic entertainment, this information may help you while traveling (know what word to use if you find something in your hotel room bed).

May also be useful for making multilingual “danger” signs to post on discarded refuse. A skull-and-crossbones also goes a long way  A drawing of a bed bug along with the word “Warning! Bed bugs!” in English and perhaps another language or two that are common in your neighborhood may go a long way.  (Thanks to Winston for warning me off the skull-and-crossbones idea.  Point taken!)

Source:
bedbug. Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary.

• Crummy bugs
• Need for Spanish resources on bed bugs
• Tripadvisor: 8% of survey respondents encountered bed bugs at hotels
• Word of bed bugs is spreading

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Out of Montréal, in fact: La Cibole de Cimex. The author is named Corinne and has had bed bugs. Deux fois. Merde!

(I only get to swear in French, because Bed Bug Helloise is a proud monoglot. She hasn’t a clue I have a multilingual potty mouth.)

Two times. We’re sorry to hear that, but we are glad she’s blogging about it and can provide a bed bug resource pour les francophones.

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• handy tip: bed bug feces identification

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