BEDBUG FACTS
• They are about 1/4 inch long, shaped in a flat oval and reddish-brown in color. They have no wings.
• They feed only on blood (human or animal), usually when their victims are sleeping, as they might spend 5 to 10 minutes ingesting several times their body weight in blood.
• They don't spread disease, so are not tracked by state health departments.
• Fewer than half of people who get bit show a visible reaction on skin.
• They leave behind tiny reddish-brown to black waste speckles on mattresses and sheets.
• They hide in wall crevices, between floorboards and behind wall sockets as well as mattress and upholstery seams.
• They can live for a year without eating.
• Females usually lay at least a few eggs every day, up to 500 in their life span.