Bedbug
Related Category: Zoology: Invertebrates
any of the small, blood-sucking bugs of the family Cimicidae, which includes about 30 species distributed throughout the world. Bedbugs are flat-bodied, oval, reddish brown, and about 1/4 in.
Adult bedbugs are reddish brown, flattened, oval, and wingless, with microscopic hairs that give them a banded appearance.
Bedbug
Bedbugs (or bed bugs) are small nocturnal insects of the family Cimicidae that live by hematophagy, that is by feeding on the blood of humans and other warm-blooded hosts ...
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Some, like the infamous bedbug, even suck on people or other mammals. Many bugs are unwanted vistors to gardens or in agriculture.
Most Hemiptera have wings although there are a few wingless species such as bedbugs. Hemipterans are mainly plant sap feeders, and many of them are pests of cultivated crops. Some species feed on other insects and as such are beneficial to man.
 See also: Nymph, Weevil, Fly, Caterpillar, Arthropoda
  
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