What size bed bugs

Bugs are miniature blood-sucking insects, because detect bloodsuckers and destroy them is always difficult. In the house usually lives bedding. Dimensions of bedbugs help them to hide well and move quickly in a person’s bed.

Stages of pest development

To find out what size bedbugs, consider the process of development of the parasite, breeding nuancesfrom the egg to the adult, which lasts 35-50 days.

Its growth rate and value depend on many conditions:

• the amount of food (blood);
• room temperature;
• act chemical preparations (insecticides).

House bugs lay the eggs 1 mm in size in one place, their clutch looks like sprinkled sugar. With the help of a special secret embryos are attached to any surface and mature within 14 days.

Bedbugs and eggs

Then hatch maggots although tiny, but very voracious. Newborn individuals immediately need something to eat, so the parents lead their brood behind them in search of food in the apartment "to drink krovushki".

Larvae, like all children, eat a lot and grow quickly. A person can feel their invasion precisely on such days, when kids go hunting, almost without leaving bite marks on the skin because of its tiny size.

The development schedule of the larvae

1 week - small (1 mm), almost transparent klopik.

2 week - the shell begins to form, acquiring a light brown color, the size of the larva is already 1.5-2 mm.

3 week - chitinous cover has the same color as that of the parents, and the juvenile itself increases to 0.3 cm.

4 and 5 weeks - the final stage of the nymphs, when the young bloodsucker becomes almost sexually mature - 0.4 cm.

6 week - an adult bed bug in length reaches 0.5 cm, females are usually slightly larger than males.

Growth points

Stages of development of bedbugs

During the growth and attainment of puberty, the larva several times molts and discards the old shell. As they grow older, it becomes more and more like an adult insect.

Color and size of bed bugs may vary slightly. There is a dependence of the color on the amount of food: the hungry nymph has a translucent body, and if it’s full, it varies from scarlet to purple color.

The size of domestic bugs also depends on the degree of satiety: as it fills with blood, its body becomes rounded and thicker.

Life expectancy of bed bug Lasts 1-2 years, and without food, they can do up to 1.5 years (but do not multiply). As soon as a suitable victim is found, they quickly come to life. Get rid of bedbugs It is possible, adhering to the rules of disinsection and using powerful drugs.