Did you find a creepy crawler and looking for bed bugs photo and description information to help confirm an infestation? Below you'll find a large number of images and photos of bed bugs around the world.
Probably the best pictures of bed bugs by themselves and their home are the four pictures below; these bugs were found on the end of a mattress. These images show it all including the eggs, bed bugs, bed bug feces (dried blood - turns black / brown when it dries), bed bug shedding and more.
Bed Bugs hiding on Mattress
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Bed bugs Hiding
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Bed Bugs their feces
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Bed bug eggs
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Nightmare - that best describes an infestation of bed bugs. Although they are extremely hard to get rid of, it's not impossible if you have the right information! We have a ton of solutions from people around the world that you can try yourself.
If you have been bitten and not sure what you have, then try building a bed bug trap and see what you catch!
If you would like to share bed bugs photo and description (such as where you found it, etc...) then take a picture and send it to badbedbugs@gmail.com and I'll do my best to get it posted so that others can help identify it! Feel free to leave a comment below as well.
Hi Erin,
I hate to tell you this, but that is a great example of a mature bed bug! Can you tell me more about this, where you found it (near the bed? if so, how close to the bed, living room?, etc). Do you have any bites?
Hi Jessica,
No, this is not a bed bug, so you both can relax and focus in on the work ahead of you with the new home :)
I found the bug below crawling on my wall in my apartment.
Any ideas on what it is??
Thanks,
Erin
Hi,
My boyfriend is obsessed over a bug that we found on our comforter after I threw my coat down on it.
I had just come back from getting off of a train (where if this is a bed bug – I’m thinking it came from). We have turned the bed upside down and came up with nothing else and are washing all of the clothes that we have at the house. We just bought a house and it’s not done yet so it’s only a suitcase worth of clothes. We have been reading about the characteristics of the bed bug and we don’t really see the lines on it and it’s also narrow, oval, and puffy, not necessarily flat at all.
1. Is the attached picture a bed bug?
2. If so, do you think we have more somewhere?
Thanks,
Jessica
Hi there,
I live in Seattle, I have a studio apartment downtown and our building is regularly sprayed for bugs (including bed bugs) I took my dog for a walk late last night after work, took him home, took off his jacket and gave him a bath in my stand up shower, I laid a towel at the edge of the shower for him to walk out on and dried him off leaving both towels over night.
I am pretty freaked out though, I tore up my bedroom and bathroom and living room looking, washing all our bedding however to be safe and I found NOTHING… is this a bed bug?
Its very thin with 6 legs and little antennae. Its about the size of an apple seed. I have not been bitten or anything… your thoughts?
-tristan
Hello,
I really think this is a bed bug. I haven’t been bitten (so I think) and my mattress shows no signs. This was on my pillow one morning, it actually fell (I assume from the ceiling) and onto my pillow where I was already awake.
I killed it, but I can’t sleep knowing I may have them.
Please help!
Harmony
Hi Taylor,
Take a picture of the bug and send it to badbedbugs@gmail.com so I can tell if it’s a bed bug of something else.
For the past week or so, my head has been itching. I found a bug in my hair earlier this week and one in my hair during my shower tonight. The first one was brown with black stripes across it, but it had no wings or hair. The other one was just black with no wings or hair. My family is big on drying our clothes when we come back from a place that might have bedbugs. My mom and I also have researched lice, but the pictures are different. We have searched our rooms but we didn’t find any evidence of bedbugs either. Is it possible that I have bedbugs?
I forgot to mention that no one else has found bugs in their hair. I also haven’t had any scratchy bumps on my body.
Cassy,
That looks like a bed bug, but odd that the head is so dark. Question: does it have a hard shell (something bedbugs don’t have) and does the abdomen have bands (which bedbugs do have)?
Also, a bed bug doesn’t have wings (I didn’t see any in the picture), has six legs and the antennae can get as long as half the size of the body. If it had two spikes in the back, you would be getting into the roach nymph area.
Other pests that commonly mistaken for bedbugs are:
swallow bug, which come into your home after their host (usually a swallow) dies.
and the shiny spider beetle (more round than flat).
I found this bug in my bathroom by the toilet.
Is it a bedbug? Or a water bug?
Hi, I found a 2 bugs that look very much like the bugs Clayton found. 1 was in my foam mattress cover- it was alive (I trapped it with tape and have a photo of it). Another was on the mattress pad. I’m really worried and disgusted. If these aren’t bedbugs, yet are also found in beds, what ARE they? Please find some ID for them.
RE: MARK with the creepy bug on your son’s bed that looks like it has branched sticks coming out of it’s head. I’m not an expert, but i think it’s a type of weevil. as in, Boll Weevil, the known name, the kind that ruins cotton crops.
They look awfully creepy, but they’re not interested in humans. relatively common from what i understand. search wikipedia, they go nuts on the topic.
Hi Clayton,
That does not look like a bed bug, it’s something else, but I’m not sure what.
Hi Rebecca,
Those are not bedbugs and are harmless, they are called a Pillbug or Rollie Pollie.
Hi,
I found these in my home!
Are they bed bugs? I’m worried.
Hi Paula,
Yes, this is a bed bug and yes, it could have came from the apartment next door through the electrical outlet. This popular highway is usually taken by bed bugs when the apartment next door gets fumigated which drives the bed bugs into the adjoining units. Look on this site for Diatomaceous Earth (Bed Bug Dust)!
My son and I have bites on our backs here and there . I live in an apartment complex and my neighbors above us just recently had them. Is it possible for them to have gotten bedbugs through our walls or through our washer or dryers as they are available for use to everyone?
But I would appreciate if you could email me back and let me know. Found this one crawling up my shirt while sitting on couch. Have seen at least 2 others prior weeks. One on my bed sheet. Thank you. The bug has clear legs, its a light orangish yellowish. Clear reddish tint. On its back it has some black.
I went to change sheets and flip the mattress and found a few of these in the seam of the pillow top.
Most were dead some still alive. And a few shells of the little bugs.
Bedbugs or something else?
Thanks
No, thank you for keeping me up to date. It is so important that people realize there are upstanding hotels that deal with problems like this in a professional manner – it is not the hotel putting the bed bugs there, it’s visitors leaving them there for the next person. All the hotel has to do is accept the situation, act fast and regular – and – that is exactly what this hotel did!
Rather than hide their name, they should be congratulation publicly for their professionalism, but this is the way it goes (and I completely understand) – hard business for hotels, isn’t it!
Thanks again for sharing!!!
Thank you so much Jim for your response and confirmation that it is indeed a bed bug – we got confirmation from the hotel that Orkin agrees – it is a bed bug – NONE were found in the room (it did look clear from what we could tell) so it’s a bit of a mystery where this guy came from – I kind of wonder if they’re in the carpet or something.
Our stay was refunded and they’ve given us 4 free passes to their water park ( with a meal for each of us) so we can return and have some fun with our kids. I have to say, my husband and I are VERY impressed with their acknowledgement of this situation and for responding the way they did.
Because they’ve handled it well and I do believe they are actively on top of managing infestations they discover I’m not going to share the photos and video with “braded” material. They certainly don’t need that (we just captured it as “insurance”) but feel free to use the pics of the bugs I sent you that aren’t “branded”.
I’ve written up a blog post to help educate other families about bad bugs – to help them be more aware and included a link to your site (I hope that’s ok?!) I run a few moms “groups” on Facebook with more than 300 mom members so this subject will likely get their attention! I’ll be publishing the post publicly either tonight or in the morning.
Thank you for your great website and help!
Julie
Hi Julie,
Great job spotting it, and yes, right on with the description! If you like, and I’d love to post, your additional pictures and photos on the site. The most important part of sharing is that others can refer to the video to verify their findings and helps others more than you can imagine!
I’m guessing you got lucky and didn’t bring any with you. You were VERY SMART not to stay, no matter what it might have cost you, which should be NOTHING at the very least!
BTW – did you file a complaint? Is the hotel doing anything for you?
Jim – BadBedBugs.com
Hi there – I actually checked out your site before we went traveling – I knew to check the room for bugs – I did and everything looked great. We were keeping our luggage in the bathroom just to be safe. I got up at 10:30 PM to go to the bathroom and found this little guy crawling across the bathroom floor towards our luggage – caught it in a mug.
I’m pretty sure it’s a 2nd stage larvae – but would really appreciate your expert opinion! This was at a hotel in Niagara Falls, Canada. We have photos and video galore of this little bug – including many on “branded” pamphlets etc. We packed the kids up in the middle of the night and drove home after I found him – couldn’t chance it and all our luggage is awaiting us in the garage.
Thanks so much for your website! It has quite possibly saved us from an infestation in our home!!!
Julie
I know we have bedbugs … no need to include a photo. We moved into a new apartment, and, well … you’ve heard it all before. We are now going to move in the next few weeks and being a working class family we cannot afford 3 new mattresses and 3 new box-springs, we have already thrown out a considerable amount of bedding, etc … and cannot afford any more losses.
My dilemma is this – I feel HORRIBLE knowing that I may infest innocent new neighbors at the new place. I plan to RE-cover the mattress’ after moving (since the covers will probably rip in transit) and wash the surfaces of any wood with alcohol (yet again) and vacuum (yet again) all the wooden surfaces on any of our remaining furniture. Here is my question – point blank – where can I get DEET or anything remotely similar. I cannot continue to wash and wash and rub and scrub and vacuum (with a DYSON that is SO strong it picks up linoleum) over and over again my entire life.
My children, myself and my husband are bone tired of this over and over insane game of “do we have any more? did we kill them all? yesssss … OH NO!” It’s maddening and I’m at the end of my rope … sincerely. I’d appreciate any form of help as far as obtaining DEET or what have you. Just ANYTHING that kills these disgusting, life wrecking bloodsuckers that we NEVER asked for or deserved.
They are the gift that keeps on giving – even when you have no more to give. You can email me directly. Thank you in advance SO much.
Hi Lauren,
You would be lucky if you found the lone bed bug; they are not in the mattress, so have you checked around the bed? What about setting up a bed bug trap? Are you still being bitten?
I found this bed bug after it bit me!
I tore apart my whole room mattress box spring etc.. and no other signs.
Please help
Hi Kristen, Send the bed bugs photo to badbedbugs@gmail.com and I’ll be able to tell you do sure. I have not received your picture as of yet.
Thanks!
My family has noticed bites all over our bodies and at first we had no idea what it was coming from. I had had them before but not from home from a friends house about a year ago. about 2 months ago we discovered that my sister and i had them again my family paid it no mind until everyone had them. i suggested that they were bed bugs but no one believed me. my sister went to the hospital and the doctor said that it looked like bed bug bites, but my family still ignored it and gave a whole list of possibilities. i found a bed bug crawling up my pant leg while using the restroom my family still doesn’t know yet so when they find out they might freak out and I’m certain that they are bed bugs.
please give me any suggestions on how to get rid of them
~Takel
I found this on the wall about a foot from my bed. Is it a bed bug?
Hello,
My name is Laura and I live in an old apartment building in NYC with one roommate, no plants or pets. Starting about 2 months ago I started getting bites on my leg here and there sometimes in a cluster of 2′s and ones by themselves, only one with 3 together (picture below). These bites feel like mosquitoes and look like them too. I immediately thought bedbugs and got new bites once or twice a week. After doing an inspection and not finding much i called a pest control company in to inspect and they almost laughed at me saying if i had bedbugs, id have some clues somewhere. Keep in mind i have old cracked wood floors in my bedroom. (which since i decided to fill a few big ones with wood glue but didnt do the best job)
The specialist guys put down 3 sticky glue traps under my bed near corners and by the wheels. This was October 5th. Since then i caught a ton of bugs (inspecting the traps everyday like a crazy person) but no bedbugs. I know this because last week i even sent the traps in question over to the specialists labs dept to find out it was bedbug negative. Ive since bought new traps and still no bedbugs. Ive bought expensive encasements for the mattress and box spring as well. Ive had the traps down just shy of 2 months now and have not caught a bedbug. Frustrated, i went to the dermatologist who confirmed it being bug bites. I also started sleeping covering my legs and feet, everything except for my arms and above my neckline. Ive started to get a rash on my arms and chest but nothing severe and the dermatologist said not due to bugs, i self-diagnosed due to anxiety and maybe even heat rash? I also want to add that my boyfriend stays over about once every 5 days or so.
He didn’t report anything until i did an inspection on him and found a bunch of pimple-like bites only on his butt. He normally gets butt-pimples like everyone else but these seemed more intense (darker than mine but smaller) and almost up to his lower back. His bites seem different than mine though and do not itch. Some of them actually look like pimples with white coming out the middle. (sorry)
Ive done a room search a few times and found nothing. I haven’t got a bite since Saturday, if i have bedbugs it doesn’t seem severe just yet, but then again wouldn’t i have at least caught one by now since they tend to multiply with time?
Could this be another bug bite like a mite of some sort?
Your help is much appreciated. My roommate (Who is not getting bit) and family think I’m going crazy, maybe i am but i still cant sleep either way and wake up many times in the night to turn the light on to see nothing (white sheets, no blood stains, etc)
Any suggestions you can think of would help.
Update: 1/18/11
The bite has subsided and very few have taken it’s place since. I went back to the dermatologist regarding a few other things on my legs and he told me it was folliculitis (inflammation of hair follicles anywhere on the skin). This was a major relief and I have no more fears of bed bugs. I since have slept very soundly.
Thanks again,
Laura
Let me know what you think about these bugs. Found these tonight after doing the wrong thing (set off a bomb in bedroom). Now I’ve found your site and know what to do from here.
Thanks!
Chris
Are bedbugs scared of sunlight or the sight of any light at all?
Hi Tom,
Sorry, but it’s impossible for me to tell if that’s a photo of a bed bug or something else; if you get another one, please send it in and I’ll let you know.
Thanks!
How long did it take until you realized it was on you?
I am currently renting a 2 bedroom house from a realty company in Indiana. I pay 500$ a month plus all utilities. We recently found bed bugs in our mattress. Of course I’m living a nightmare. I’m getting little to no sleep. I have three children and a full time job and that combined with no sleep is a night mare in itself. I contacted my landlord to have pest control come out. Which he did. After they indeed identified it as a bed bug problem my landlord contacted me and informed me that I had to pay an additional 87.50 a month for the next four months ( being the remainder of my lease).
With the holidays rapidly approaching I don’t have the extra money for this and don’t as if this is my responsibility. These bugs contain human blood and can burst exposing you to that blood and possibly infection or disease. Even the pest control guy said he is not totally convinced that they do not transmit disease. On top of the possible health risks and financial burden it is a huge case of emotional distress, as all of my children’s toys,and all of the rest of our belongings are in plastic bags. I cannot sleep I my own bed ( currently attempting sleep on the floor which is not happening) and not to mention that in addition to the vinyl mattress covers we had to buy, moving in we were informed by the pest control that we knew to purchase a certain type of mattress cover that runs about 100$ per cover.
We have three mattresses. And a baby mattress. The box spring cover is around 40$ ad fortunately we only have one box spring. My aunt manages an apartment complex and recently dealt with a bed bug problem in one of the apartments, she told me that they just passed a law in July or August in Indiana that the landlord is responsible for the cost of treatment. I have looked on the Internet and cannot find anything on this new law. So my question to you would be is there such a law and if so where would I find it. My landlord says if I don’t pay the extra money each month I am setting myself up for a lawsuit. In my perspective that is absolutely ridiculous. I’m paying for enough with the mattress covers and everything else this treatment entails! Please help! Thanks
Sorry so squashed. Found it crawling up my bathroom wall.
Is this a bed bug?
I am finding all these little white or translucent round things in my bed. I know my husband has a skin disease psoriasis (I don’t know how to spell it.) I find these little white eggs on my pillow and on my side of the bed. Itch all the time, especially in the hair. I feel like one is going to crawl out of my hair onto my face when someone is talking to me.
I don’t have nits in my hair after checking it for several days. I changed the sheets twice and vacuumed the mattress and this is some of what I found on the sheets when I got home from work. Today I bought a white poster board, shook my head over it, there were tiny tiny tiny specs of black. I am freaking out that it is bed bugs or head lice but no real evidence of either. I would suspect If I were infested, that it is a new infestation of less then 10 days old, after getting a hair cut and a trip to the goodwill for a Halloween costume. I am freaking out and my family thinks I am crazy.
I found this guy and several others in my bathroom and on the ceiling of my laundry closet, perhaps 6 or 7 over several days. No bites though. I included the penny for scale.
Hi,
I moved to a new apartment in March 2011. I found a bug during the summer but thought nothing of it. Now I’ve been getting little bumps when I get up in the morning. In the past 2 weeks we have found 3 bugs. I have a 1 month old baby so I know I have to get out of here if these are bed bugs. I’m pretty sure they are and I have already told my landlord and they are spraying in a few days, but I am leaving the apartment today to stay at my parents. I am washing the clothes that we are bringing there and putting them in garbage bags and also changing into clean clothes right before leaving.
Here is the picture of the 2 bugs. The big one is squished and dead but the small one is still alive. Please let me know if these are bed bugs. Thank you!
Julie
My son (8)keeps complaining of itching on his back in the AM. He has woken up several mornings with what looks like a rash on his back? It seems to go away within an hour or two. Could these be bed bug bites? I noticed there are some yellowish brown stains on his mattress, which I have always attributed to pee accidents, but now am wondering??
I’m really trying not to freak out here!!
Unsure what these could be. Sorry that the photo isn’t the best quality – I have to use my phone’s camera. Tried scaling it with a penny.
I found about 4-5 of these, dead, beetle-looking things (and maybe an exoskeleton) under my child’s toddler bed last night. I haven’t searched much in my room or the spare bedroom downstairs as of yet. Anyway, they are maybe 1/8 of an inch long (guesstimate). They are more elongated, and not really flat, but I have read that bed bugs, when not full of blood, can look a little longer. They seem to be a dark brown with a small black line on one end (head?) and 4 black spots on the other end. It has small brown looking legs. No antennae from what I could see, but they are dead so a little “curled” up.
My child has a plastic baby crib mattress still (she has a conversion crib that is currently in the daybed/toddler bed setting). Under her bed I have stored some clothes in a plastic bin, a couple of books that we read nightly and a carry case for one of her dolls (fabric texture). Otherwise there is some dust, not excessive, just what anyone might see under a bed.
I haven’t noticed any bites on her, except one day in August she woke up with bits ALL OVER her arms (maybe a total of 25). We attribute that, though, to a trip to a family member’s house where she played outside right after rainfall and there were tons of mosquitoes. Guess now I’m second guessing.
Any ideas?? I pray they’re not bedbugs, but need to get opinions. Could they be carpet beetles? Can carpet beetles be brown with black spots? Perhaps the spots I see are blood inside their body? I hadn’t squished one as I was thinking of sending them to an entomologist.
Thank you!!!!
CreepedOut
We are pretty certain these are bedbugs and would like confirmation. We have seen several alive and just found these two dead. Thanks so much!
First I was bitten 20 times one night on my legs and where my waist band is. One grouping has the three in a row which immediately alerted me to bed bugs. These appeared last Tuesday evening.
I steamed with an iron the mattress and box springs and found nothing. Also laundered all bedding and pillows. No bites since and was out of town this past weekend.
“Slept” in guest room with no bites as of yet. Looked in room where fiance was sleeping and found these on windowsill close to bed. They we’re dead. All those black specks came off easily with sticky tape.
Are they?! Thanks for your help!
Freaked out and no time to clean!
WE found this alive in my son’s bed.
That certainly does NOT look like a bedbug, and although there is no scale
in the photo, it looks entirely too big. How GROSS!
Let me know if I am wrong.
Sincerely,
Mark
Jim:
Mark:
Hi,
I found this bug in a bowl on a shelf.
Any idea what it is? I know that the picture quality isn’t that great. I also have carpet beetles but it isn’t one of those.
Thanks,
Fran
Jim:
Fran:
Jim:
Fran:
Jim:
Hello,
We found a bed bug at work crawling out from under one of the chairs after we sat on it. And today one of our employees’ wife came in and had the tell tale 3 bites on her and she was itching really bad.
Can I bring these home? should I be concerned about catching them, and how can I prevent it? Work doesn’t seem to be concerned and keeps making us sit in these chairs during meetings. I think he brought them in.
Hi,
I was hoping you could help me. i have just moved to new york and i have been staying in a hotel for the past 2 weeks. i don’t know if it is because i am paranoid about bed bugs or what but i feel there are bed bugs in the room even though me and my roommate haven’t been really bitten yet (just an isolated bump every once in a while which could be anything).
I checked the mattress a couple of times and didn’t find anything, but tonight while i was inspecting a bath math i recently purchased but haven’t used yet, i saw two insects walking on it. One was in a long oval shape, light brown color, the other was in a cream color, a bit smaller. they were very small. (On a cent coin they would probably be equal to one letter ) I don’t know what these are but i am freaking out as i am moving into my new apartment tomorrow and I don’t want to take any bed bugs with me!! Please let me know asap!!!
thanks!!!
Hi Sean,
NO worries, that is not a bed bug. Looks like it might be a Longhorned Beetle…
Hello,
I have also found them in some of the window sills.
From what I have read bed bugs are nocturnal but I find them crawling around during the day.
Do you think these are bed bugs?
Hi Jaime,
Good job on the pictures and layout and good news as well, those are NOT bed bugs :)
And yes, you can have a ton of bites from bed bugs and not easily find them. Keep in mind that they feed when they are hungry, so it might not happen every night, but it’s going to happen more than once.
Hi Jamie,
Absolutely! We had one visitor that didn’t find the bed bugs for six months, but when she did, they were in great numbers! Set up a bed bug trap and see what you get, and as for those exoskeletons, take a picture and send them to the address at the bottom of this site and I’ll place it in your comment (and edit if necessary).
Thank you for this site. I can’t tell you what it means to have somewhere to turn, especially right now when I feel like I am losing my mind!
I have about 70 bites (or bumps), mostly on my stomach. Some are under my arm and on my rear-end. This has occurred over the course of about a week and a half. For the most part, they don’t really itch. Sometimes I feel very itchy, but I think it’s because I’m thinking about it too much. A few seem linear, but mostly they seem random. They range in size from a pencil eraser to a penny. Some are a little bit painful to the touch. My boyfriend has none.
I live in NE Ohio. Recently, we found 2 fleas on one of our cats. We have not seen any elsewhere. We put advantage on the cats and our dog was already on Revolution.
If I have BB, does it make sense that I have so many bites and can’t find a bug?
Thank you again for reading this!!
Hi Jeanne,
I’d get rid of the pest control company you are using! If after multiple visits and not finding what you did, then they either have extremely bad luck or just don’t know how to look for bed bugs!
I’ve edited the picture you sent me to show the bed bug. There is no question, you have found a bed bug!
This may seem like bad news, but now that you know what a bed bug looks like and that you found one, you can start searching yourself. Check out my checklist badbedbugs.com/bedbug-checklist/ and set up a trap as well, instructions here badbedbugs.com/bed-bug-traps/
Please keep us up to date on what you find, what excuse the pest control is using for not spotting this themselves, etc.
Thanks!
Like many people I am getting bites for about a month or more but have had pest control out several times and they have never found anything.
I finally found three bugs in my bed very early this morning and took pictures.
The one full of blood ended up bursting in the baggie, but the other two are there…
Are these bed bugs?
Please help!
Hi,
I’ve checked the mattress and sheets to see if there was any more and didn’t find anything. I haven’t been bitten that I know of and haven’t seen anymore in the last 3 days.
Can you tell me if this is a bed bug?
Thanks!
Hi Jenn,
You can sleep safe, it is not a bed bug, legs too long and features not right :)
Thanks for sharing!
I saw your site and think its wonderful.
I don’t see anything on my bed. I opened up the closet to get the mop put. I turned on the water and their was these two grey bugs. I have never seen this kind of bug. I killed it, but I am worried it is bedbug.
Above is a picture I took them after I killed the bug and put it in ziplock bad.
Thanks,
Jenn
I Never knew anything about bedbugs until now. They have truly ruined my life. I can’t have friends or family over and I can’t sleep anymore. I live in a building that consists of 16 units. I discovered the problem a couple of weeks ago.
I woke up itching very bad and saw five bugs in my bed. I looked the bug up online and found out what it was. I started crying and didn’t know what to do. I went to the hardware and bought bedbug sprays and also set off bedbug bombs. My daughter came to me crying because her face was swollen from a bite. I flipped over her box spring and tore the fabric off the bottom, there I found the problem. Bedbugs nesting and sleeping. I threw up from the sight of it. I continued to do the same for all the beds in the house, found the exact same thing. Then it was on to the couches. The bugs lie dormant in the wood of the couches. I immediately discarded everything in my apartment. Did my research and found out that I had to contact my landlord. He sent an inspector out the very next day. The inspector told me to bag up everything in plastic bags real tight and throw out old books and paper that I didn’t need and said I needed three treatments and he said he would be back on Monday.
While standing in the neighborhood store I overheard neighbors saying that all of the landlord’s other buildings were infested with bedbugs as well. My question is, why didn’t the landlord treat all of the units just in case to avoid the spread of bedbugs? In my opinion, I think that the maintenance workers were transporting the bugs, seeing how the people with the bugs live in different buildings, and have never stepped a foot inside any of the other units.My landlord was careless not to inform all of his tenants about the infestations.
I have nothing now. Everything I own has gone to the garbage. I only had the furniture for one year and a half. I spent thousands of dollars on my furniture, and I’m not working now and can’t afford to replace anything. I really feel like crap. I’m going crazy. I’m so sick of living out of plastic bags. I don’t know what to do anymore. The third treatment was completed 2 days ago and this morning I found a a bedbug on my sheet. My advise to anyone suffering from the same situation, would be to discard all carpeting. Bedbugs hide under the baseboards in the corners and folds of carpeting making it difficult to get rid of.
my friend has this problem with bedbugs her landlord wont do anything for her her and her two kids are gettin bitten up. Also she is on housing and the landlord wont do anything about it and she wont open her mouth to report it. He just dropped 5 cans of bedlam to kill them but they are 5 other apartments in her building dont they crawl to the next apartmenet. How can they get rid of them them when the whole apartment building is infested
I have been finding bugs like i see in the pic. above. and i have notice that me and my son been haveing bit marks on us. i had an old bed in my room. i got rid of it but we still r gettin bit. i have found bugs on my couches. i dont have apic to put up but how can u get rid of them. what should i do. i dont have much money. can they harm me and my son?
Hi,
i been getting this bug bites that look like they could be from bed bugs, i got only some bits on one night and i havent gotten anymore, but i checked my bed everywhere to see any signs that it could be from a bed bug and there is nothing.
i have only seen one bug so far it was on my wall it didnt move so much, then i got it and i was gonna kill it but it jumped!!
please help if u know what this bug could!!! i am so scared!!
ahsley
Hi Sara,
Don’t stop waving the flag of anti-consumerism! Although a bed bug infestation is not to be taken lightly, it’s not the end! You CAN treat this yourself and you can turn it into a big positive!
There is plenty of information on BadBedBugs.com for doing it yourself pest control, and an infestation doesn’t mean you have to stop dumpster diving, just make sure you treat everything before you bring it home or give it away (food grade diatomaceous earth is all natural and works). Your book simply has an extra chapter or two on how to sanitize your finds after a dive :)
Don’t let this set you back – stay strong, be persistent and make it all work for you!
And thank you so much for sharing the pictures – it clearly shows how well they hide and what an infestation looks like; other will benefit from this!
My husband and I began a repair/renovation of our home a few months ago after our 3 nasty teen/young adults left the next. There are no carpets and no flooring at the moment. We have 2 dogs and began a full force treatment of what we thought was a terrible infestation of fleas after finding we were being bit. On and on and on this went. Treat the dogs, treat the inside, the outside, pesticides, natural remedies, clean, vacuum, clean, sell the upholstered furniture, etc. Then our night-terrors began to cause us insufferable insomnia, irritable moods left us bickering, and the continuing onslaught of bites, itching, embarrassment and a literal fear of sitting or sleeping on our own furniture in our own house pushed us to the point of insanity! We literally stopped sleeping at night.
I’ve included pictures below which you can click on to enlarge.
Finally I saw a link about bedbugs while researching flea infestations and scabies, (but I knew it was not scabies, had those age 13) and I went to the site thinking bedbugs were only a possible add-on to our problem, not the actual culprit, merely another name for an insect the pets were bringing into the house. I too, like most people still thought bed bugs the myths of bedtime stories.
As I sat on my uncomfortable yet recently sterilized metal stool in front of my laptop ingesting pages and pages of information, facts, pictures, and horror stories regarding the resurgence of the bloodsuckers, and the continually repeated mantra of ‘do NOT try D.I.Y. with bedbugs’ I began to shake and cry.
I took my camera to our bedroom and found all of the evidence I needed. I found a link to an article promising to describe a ‘surprising’ way people are getting bed bugs and clicked on it eagerly as we have not traveled or stayed away from home in over 2 years. Used goods! Ohhhhh! the despair!
I had been waving a flag of anti-consumerism for the past 10 months. Dumpster diving was our favorite past-time. We recovered, re-used, made money, supplied many many friends with much needed clothing and shoes. I even did an A+ presentation in my Sociology; Modern Social Problems class about the rampant waste within a community which prides itself for it’s renowned ‘Green’ practices and was preparing to write a book!!
Our home, the contents within, every room, drawer, cupboard, inside and out, even much of our remodeling materials consists of very nearly close to 100% salvaged, recycled, refurbished goods from dumpsters! And when we do ‘pay’ for necessary items, we try our best to get them freecycled, secondhand etc. It has all come to a very sudden end.
Maybe after we have fully conquered our infestation and become expert practitioners of bed bug prevention we can once again be the radical pioneers of anti-consumerism and crusade against waste while delighting in finding discarded treasure….for now, gas and electricity bills going up with our hot/hot laundering, interviewing exterminators, gaining the ability to sleep just a few minutes longer each night, and the long weeks of diligent, repetitive work to eradicate the hard-shelled blood hogs is our crusade.
Hopefully, when my bites, infected, red, sore and swollen will fade and cease to appear anew each morning, and I can expose myself to people without shame, accept job interviews without waiting until winter when I can cover them up, and sleep EIGHT HOURS!!!
Thank you for listening, we will help spread awareness wherever we can.
S.
ps. regarding the pictures, 2 of fecal matter and molted exoskeletons on our headboard and the other a stain that I had thought a ‘leaky’ ink pen but do not use ink pens (pencils)! As for our bites, I see them in the mirror enough. One more significant observance to note, when I went to the urgent care to acquire a prescription to help me with my ‘flea’ bites, the attending physician did not think to question the source of my bites, despite my description of the nightly buffets and patterned fresh bites.
If this epidemic is up 5000% percent and an ER physician is missing such strong indicators, how much further will that percentage be pushed until our public health departments make awareness a priority?
Can bed bugs live on plastic baby mattress?
Hi David, simply send the picture to the email address listed at the bottom of this page and I’ll edit it, then post it on the site for responses.
I took a picture of a bug in my apartment, and I’d like to know if it’s a bed bug
Thanks!
That does not look like a bed bug Ryan :)
Update:
Have you tried food grade diatomaceous earth? you can find it at the feed and supply stores, it’s inexpensive and works great on bed bugs, ants, etc – I would imagine it works just as good on beetles. http://www.badbedbugs.com/bed-bug-spray/
Make sure it’s food grade! The other kind is used for swimming pools and not what you want!
Good luck Ryan!
I know the quality is poor, but can you tell me if this is a bed bug? It does have wings but I haven’t seen it fly. Please let me know what you think.
Thank you,
Ryan Gastreich
Update:
Thank you for responding! I did some more research and found that I have a carpet beetle infestation. Do you have any advice on how to get rid of them? I’ve washed all my clothes and vacumed/steamcleaned my entire bedroom; including under and the bed it self. But they are still here, in lesser numbers but here.
Thank you,
Ryan
I have washed everything from blankets to pillows and sheets and our clothes. I have vacuumed and nothing is working. I live in apartment and the Management has said I have to pay for the bed bug extermination. They only offer to assume payment up front but I have to make payments to apartment and I find that wrong.
The carpet has been a huge problem since we moved in it is nasty. Now that bed bugs are in apartment they wont even consider replacing it. This is an apartment that is ran for low-income a government funded place in AZ. I have questioned the exterminators if I am the only tenant with problems the answer is they will not say a thing it is confidential.
The reason I wanted to know is if other apartments have problems I feel they need to pay for me to rent another place of dwelling. I know what your thinking you will just take bugs with you. I say no I have thrown my mattresses away. I plan on tossing all my furniture. I plan on putting all my clothes and stuff in bins and leave them in a storage for over a year without opening the plastic canisters. I will buy things new one at a time and I mean everything.
I just cannot take this anymore. I need help and answers. So far I am disappointed and I am losing sleep I am disabled and need my rest. Does anyone have feed back to help me and my son out with? What and where can I write to get help?
Also, I heard the Bedbugs are now becoming an epidemic in Arizona. I would like to know what opinions others have on adding more to the AZ Laws on Landlord and Tenants laws. I am confused with the wording on the law that just came to effect. Just needing to know what others think about the motels and their responsibility. Why are the laws not hitting hard on motels too? I hear they don’t have to wash the comforter only once a month if that. And what about steaming the beds and carpets and drapes and should it be included in some of the laws in fighting Bed Bugs? I am upset! Seems more is needed.
I just found a bug in my hotel room and am hoping its not a bedbug. Sorry, but I squished it a bit. Can you tell me if I need to switch rooms?
Can anyone please tell me if there is a lab or an institute where one can send in a bug for identification?
Sarah, Those are not bed bugs, they are baby cockroaches and even thought they don’t bite, they still are gross and need to be sprayed for to get rid of if you have lots of them other than just the three you said you found and showed in the pictures.
David, that is not a bed bug, you have nothing to worry about.
Hey Steve,
I’m sorry to report that this is indeed a bed bug photo. Can you tell us a little more about where you found it?
And yes, it’s possible one hitched a ride and there are no more.
Thanks!
Hello,
If it’s not a photo of a bed bug, then what is it and is it harmful?
By the way, I only found the one bug. Checked the bed after I killed it and didn’t find any others. There There were two small brownish things right near the bug so I got rid of those too. Is it possible to get infested by just the one?
Thanks!
Steve
Hello,
I placed a penny next to the bug so that you can get a perspective of its size.
Think anyone can confirm?
thanks,
David
I dont have a picture to share. I’ve been getting bites that seem very similiar to those i’ve seen online. Two bites-one right next to another. Have been traveling alot lately.
I need to know definitively how to get rid of these bugs. There are so many powders and sprays advertised. God knows what really works. What is a person vacumns, dry steams, seals up mattress and box spring with covers and still does not get all of the eggs. Since they are invisible, how would one know?? I cannot afford to dispose of all my belongings. PLEASE, some serious good advisement. Please.
Hi Concerned 80,
To include a photo in your comment, simply send your photo to badbedbugs@gmail.com and I’l place it in their for you.
Thanks!
I found this in my car yesterday. I been looking in my room to see if there any bed bugs. Is this a bed bug in this photo I got to no. It look like it might have wings.,
Hi,
A year ago in Taiwan while vacationing and travelling with a camp, I’ve happen to have come across one seriously sketchy motel. The next day without noticing until I showered at night, I found 80 bites from my knee to ankles on both legs. My friend who shared the same bed as me also had a few but probably only 10. Our other two roommates who slept on the bed beside ours had nothing.
Having 80 bites in one night has definitely freaked me out and I think anytime I see a number of bites or ones in straight lines…I think bed bugs..
First they looked like weird squiggles on the front of my legs. One on the left, two beside each other on the right then I stupidly decided to scratch them. The next day, they went from looking like red squiggles to bug bites. The day after, I got 6 more (the picture shown) on the bottom of my right thigh….I am unsure what to think…can someone please tell me what this might be? Fingers crossed not bed bugs and not anything worse!
By the way, how do I upload a photo here?
Hi Jennifer,
You can relax as this is NOT a bed bug :)
Please tell me this isn’t a bed bug?
I’ve searched my mattress but haven’t found anything and then found this bug on my chair in the living room.
Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks,
Jennifer
do bed bugs like water? ifound a bug in my bath tub. it look like a bed bug.
I’ve gotten 6 beg-bug looking bites in the last week! A smaller one on my hand, a red one on my calf, a bumpy one on my ankle, one on the inner thigh, one on my knee, and now this huge palm sized red circular one on my outer thigh. It is raised and itchy with a slightly darker center. I’m trying to upload the picture but I don’t know how. I moved into a new place a few weeks ago and before then I NEVER got any kind of bug bites. Maybe 5 in my entire life. It has old wooden floors, and a questionable looking mattress. I’ve looked for them but to no avail, but if they’re as good at hiding as they seem to be, just because I don’t see them doesn’t mean they’re not there. Help! I’m paranoid and itchy all the time thinking about bugs and I’m scared of going to sleep at night now!
Betty
i live in a 4 bedroom townhouse with 2 other family members. my husband and i are the only ones who have bites on us. i started sleeping in the spare room and the bites stopped. i searched for bed bugs but didnt find any so i decided to check my cats for fleas. there were no fleas so i decided to rip apart my bedroom. i found bedbugs in my headboard and a dead one on my mattress. we used to be superintendents so i know that what i found is indeed a bedbug. my question is…why are they only in my room? i know they spread but we vacuumed the whole living room and didnt find any. they were only in my headboard…none in my dressers or windows or anything. 2 of the bugs were larger and full of blood, and 2 were white and empty. is it possible we caught it in time? do these home remedies work? if i wash everything and steam everything and use the powder…will that do it?
myworstfear
i have bed bugs and i have had the exterminator come in and spray and i sprayed my entire room with alcohol like they told me and still cant get rid of them…will i have to move and replace my bed? can they hurt my babies? i have a very sick child on a heart monitor and i am concerned about his health.
Thank you so much Robbin for your reply!
I didn’t show it to management because I was not sure what it was then. I checked under the mattress, behind the TV etc. but I found nothing. I didn’t get bites either. But I washed my clothes and put them in a big Ziploc bag before I left the hotel just in case and I will try the bed bug trap to see if I brought bugs home.
Thanks again!
Eriko
I found this bug and wondering what it is?
Please tell me it’s not a bed bug!
I won’t sleep tight until I know.
Thanks,
S.N.
Flea-looking bugs – what are they?
I discovered little black dots on my bed frame and thought these are fleas from how they looked but they do not jump, they run fast if touched though. They have a hard shell and when squished they are sticky (no blood). The baby ones have a translucent beige color. It all started with one black dot on my wicker headboard and now there are at least 10 each night (which I keep on wiping off daily), they are on the curtains and floor and even got into my bathroom – so they are definitely hatching. I check my white sheets for them every night but see none and strangely I do not have any bites (well maybe one in 3 months) so they might not even be bed bugs… I think they came from the window as my room is on ground floor facing a yard and my bed is in front of the window. Any idea what they are and how to go from there?
Bug 1.
I found that one in my pillow case as I was changing my bedding. The bug seems like it was crushed (by my weight maybe?). I haven’t seen any of these anywhere else though. It looks a bit like the bed bug image from your site so I would appreciate if you could confirm it.
Bug 2.
They look like fleas but are not (I had fleas before and got bitten senselessly!) and these don’t bite, they crawl and don’t jump. But they are all over my wicker head board and all around my bed (floor, walls, curtains) and on the windowsill where my bed is positioned. But I don’t find them inside my bed and I have white sheets so they would be easy to spot. They definitely hatch because I see more and more of them (they started to migrate to other parts of my apartment as well) and the babies are translucent in color. They are maybe 1/16 of an inch in size and have a hard shell. I used a magnifying glass and a macro camera but the image is not too sharp, but hopefully good enough for you to tell what these bugs might be?
Any input would be appreciated! Thanks!
for: Erica says:
May 11, 2011 at 9:19 pm
That beetle on the right is called a conenose bloodsucker (kissing beetle). It is not nice. It feeds on human blood, too. Kill it and search for others. I killed one last night and found all the info today.
AG
This is not a Bed bug but it looks like a Tick bug which can be more harmful.
You should get rid of them seriously, they are living by blood and can cause disease!
Eriko,
That look just like a bed bug! Did you show it to management? Where there more?
Hello,
I trapped it with some scotch tape and took a photo. Could you take a look at the photo attached and tell me if it’s a bed bug?
Thank you very much in advance.
Eriko
I’ve had problems with bedbugs for over 3years. I found them when I was moving, I wasn’t educated, so I brought them with me when I moved. I made the mistake of bringing all my furniture with me. If I knew what I know now, I would have thrown all my furniture in the trash before moving. Now I’m fighting to rid them. It’s the hardest thing aside from giving birth that I had to deal with. It gets exhausting but I don’t give up. I bought a steamer & I use pesticide powder but still can’t seem to rid them. I can’t afford an exterminator, is there anything I can do on my own to rid them?
My boyfriend recently had to get his house bombed due to bedbugs, and i visited there a lot before his parents noticed. They had them a while but nobody but his niece had horrible bites. Every once and a while however, him and i would get a few bites, but i figured it was from being outside on the back deck without bugspray.
The few bites i had was a simi-swollen bite on my ankle and near my elbow. After they were clearing up, one appeared on my lower back.
Since i live with my parents, i told them, but im a teen and they won’t listen to me. And i have the strength of a little kid at the time, so i can’t be up and about to really look for the pests. Any ideas?
Hi Claire,
This is NOT a bed bug and was not harmful. You have nothing to worry about :)
Hi there,
I think I have a bed bug problem. I found this bug on my sheets, and I found a similar one the next day.
I now have seven red, itchy bites on my ankles. Is this a bed bug? I’m attaching a photo to this email.
Thanks,
Claire
Hi,
I went out and bought a mattress cover and we inspected the mattress and there are NO other signs of them.
My boyfriend has a few bites but none that are Close together. Should we get our house looked at?
Thanks
Looks like a bed bug shed it’s skin but hard to tell. The stains look more like droppings than stains, but could be stains…
Hello,
I just turned the cushion of the bench on my balcony and is saw a few bugs crawling away. They looked like bedbugs.
I’m afraid that I will bring them into my student room (if I haven’t already done so). So I want to act quickly!
I tried to make some photo’s but they are to small to get them sharp. So I hope you can make something of it.
If they are bedbugs what should I do?
Thank you so much for your help!
Kind Regards,
Ouk
Treasure Island Hotel, Las Vegas
Here are some pictures showing a few of MANY bug bites I got during my stay at Treasure Island Hotel, Las Vegas. As a result, I had to get medical treatment for months. Full report to follow here as well as on websites publishing travel experiences.
Stefan Schultheis, Germany
Brett, to me that looks like a varied carpet beetle.
Carpet beetle larvae will feed on fabrics and leather, much like moths, and are unpleasant to have in the home for that reason. Whether or not it is a carpet beetle, it definitely has wing cases, so it is not a bedbug.
It kinda looks like the bedbugs in the pictures on your site, but is less than 3mm long and, as you can see, a bit over-endowed in the legs department.
Anyone know what I’m dealing with?
Steve
concernedmom2 I looked it up on the internet and it is an American Dog tick
Concerned mom 2: That is a tick!
Hi Liz,
That does look just like a bed bug, but what throws it off is the square front end! What is that?! By the way, a bed bug can be round or elongated depending on when it fed, etc.
If you have searched hard and didn’t find more, you’re probably safe, but I’d set out a bed bug trap or two to make sure you don’t have them!
Hi,
Can you help me identify this bug? I found it on the wall in my room all by itself. I touched it with my finger and I think I killed it, then I put it in a bag. No blood came out. It seems less round than pictures of bedbugs I’ve found and it had more of a “head” that pictures I’ve seen.
I live in NYC and I’m constantly paranoid about getting bedbugs! I’ve never seen one before and neither have my roommates. Sorry about the picture quality, this was the best one I took.
Thanks!
Liz
I have a friend who has been plagued by bed bugs for over a year. When she first started to notice bites about a year ago, the doctors told her it might be scavvys even though it didnt look like it and then they just didnt know. About march, she woke up in the middle of the night and saw the bugs crawling on her and realized she has bed bugs. I have been in close contact with her and I have been at her house off and on the last year and even after she found out. At the time, the bugs were jsut contained to her room and I thought it would be fine to be in her house as long as I didnt go in her room. Well recently the bugs have spread to her couches and her sisters room. She has also been to my house and I am starting to feel paranoid that they could possibly start showing up in my house. How do I stop this epidemic before it starts? Does anyone know what I could do?
The reason I havent worried until now is because this has plagued her for over a year and it hasnt spread to me yet but that doesnt mean it couldnt happen in the future.
Hi Josh,
At first glance, it looks like the exoskeleton of a bed bug, but on closer inspection, other parts look out of proportion. Do you have other pictures you could send so we can be sure?
Thanks!
Hi,
I thought it might be these fairly large black ants that we found, but I did an inspection and found this bug (see picture).
It is very small – maybe the size of a flea/gnat. Is it a baby bedbug?
Thanks,
Josh
Hello,
Those are not bed bugs and do not look like the type that bite… Rest easy :)
I should tell you that these bugs do not have any horizontal stripes.
Do all bedbugs have those horizontal stripes shown in the pictures on this site?
Thanks!
@ LIZ: call up a pro exterminator right away! There are some good companies that are not only effective but also non-toxic, since it’s in your son’s bed you wanna use safe methods.
No, they bed bugs do not fly – good news right :)
I have a hole in my screen in the bath, I for the past four days finding bugs on the bath floor, some alive some dead, they are black and they fly, could they be bedbugs, I removed area rugs this morning before work and some were still on bath linoleum after work. Do bedbugs fly, I have no bite marks but am worried to death!!!!
My son is six years old and for the past month he has been getting bites, I took him to the doctor and she said it wasn’t bedbugs, but I am very concern because the only one they bite is him. Also I live in a ” new building which was built two years ago and everybody that live in the other building have been complaining that they have some bugs also, I am desperate I don’t know what to do, please help…
Thank,
Liz
concerned mom 2
the picture you posted is definetly a wood tick
i had bedbugs and they r so eww. i hate bugs and anything to do with them and what i did was took all the matters out side and threw them away no need to ring them back into the home ..not a lot of people have the money to buy new but u have to do something, thank god for in laws! my hubby and i took 6 bombs off in the house and we got bedbug spray ..I’LL LET U KNOW IN A FEW WEEKS OR NOT IF IT WORKS AND WE DON’T HAVE THEM ANYMORE ..DIDN’T HAVE THEM REALLY BAD THANK GOD FOR THAT BUT THEY WHERE TAKEN OVER MY KIDS BEDS AND MY HOME …
dear ConcernedMom2;
Pretty sure that is a wood tick.
Thanks Jim,
I really appreciate you posting the images.
As it turns out, I was able to confirm that the bug pictured was actually a varied carpet beetle.
best!
Brett
Hi Brett,
Good news! That is not a photo of a bed bug!
Thanks for creating such a useful site!!
Three of the pics are of the bite patterns that my family has and one of whom I suspect to be the culprit.
Based on the attached picture I took, can anyone confirm that that is indeed a bedbug?
Many thanks,
Brett
Hi Kelli,
That is a bed bugs photo, no question! It’s always shocking when you find a bed bug, be it one or many, sorry that had to happen to you but realize that it’s a problem worldwide and even hospitals are reporting bed bugs!
Yes, you could have brought home just one, but also realize that these bed bugs are excellent hiders. I’d do your own test, check out my bed bug trap which you can make yourself for less than $10 and see if you catch anything (make sure to move it around to different areas where you find yourself being bitten.
If you have not found anything else, and the pest control company knows what they are doing (how to look for them, etc), then chances are you got lucky and found just the one that happened to hitch a ride.
Please, let me know what you find out will you?
Thanks and good luck!
It’s not damp in the area, so I don’t know…someone told me it was a juvenile pillbug, but it doesn’t look much like pillbugs that I’ve seen. I thought maybe it was a carpet beetle but it doesn’t look exactly like a carpet beetle either. I’m glad it’s not a bedbug though!! Now to find out what’s really biting me…
@ConcernedMom2:
I’m pretty sure it is a tick.
We recently moved into the little house my in-laws own. Before us, we had very dirty disgusting renters so the house had to be thoroughly cleaned, new kitchen cabinets, gutted bathroom, and hardwood floors re-sanded and glazed.
My in-laws hired a pest control co to come in and do a search for bed bugs etc. before we moved in. They looked in the tennants garbage that was left over, and searched the house. They found nothing.
Bites still continue. Tuesday night I found what I thought to be flees on our dog. She did not sleep in our bedroom that night and we still woke up with bites. My fiance dropped her off at the groomers to have a flee dip yesterday morning and as we were walking out the door for work I noticed a different tic looking bug on our kitchen counter. I quickly put it in a zip lock bag and called pest control again. I told them I needed to be treated for flees and I was sending a picture of what I found in case it was a bed bug.
They called right away and said it was in fact a bed bug. I immediately had a break down. I went back home, took clothes for a week put them in the dryer and took a hot shower. I jumped out of the shower put clothes on directly from the dryer and bolted out the door.
The pest control co. came this morning, did an extensive search and found nothing! They took the bug I found with them and are going back to the house Monday to treat for the flees (which also were nowhere to be found).
Here’s the question…is it possible to only have one bed bug!?!?! I am still not satisfied, although my fiance says nothing to worry about since nothing was found.
please help!!
Kelli
Hi Ben,
Don’t toss all your stuff, this does not resemble a bed bug. It look more like a bed drawn to moisture… Damp area where you found this?
Hi Concerned Mom #2,
Good news! This is NOT a bed bug. What exactly it is, I’m not sure…
Anyone else?
Hi,
Thanks very much,
Ben
Hello,
I’ve checked the bed and surrounding areas for signs but didn’t see anything.
If this is not a bed bug, does anyone know what it might be?
Thanks!
ConcernedMom2
if not, what is it and do you think there may be more? Bed area seems clean.
Hi Erica,
The images you have are NOT what bed bugs look like, and, they are NOT harmful, so you can rest easy :)
Sorry to be a bother but I have noticed an infestation of bugs in my home since the weather has warmed up.
I caught these two but I’m not sure what they are. Are either of them bed bugs? Thanks for your help.
I’m currently living in Budapest, Hungary for a few months.
Can anyone tell me if these are bed bugs?!??
Should I be concerned?
Thank you for any help!
Katie
Hi Lisa,
From what I can tell in the picture, that is what a bed bug looks like.
I’ve included a picture of a bug and I’m worried!
Does the picture above look like it could be a bed bug?
Thanks!
Lisa
Hi Jackie,
That is not a bed bug but if you want to make sure you don’t have bed bugs, visit my link in the top right of this page titled bed bug trap – I explain how to make your own trap which should confirm a bed bug infestation.
Hi,
We recently moved from CA to MS and we stayed about 8 nights at different hotels. All seemed to be clean and we didn’t bring in all of our luggage just what we needed. We also bagged up any dirty clothes we had.
My concern now is that as my husband was getting ready for work he found this bug sitting on top of a water bottle on our stair landing. This landing is about 8ft from my sons door. We also had the hall light on which is directly over the area the bug was found. Today we searched again and could not find any signs of bed bugs. His mattress is also a crib mattress and is covered in that plastic/waterproof material, and there are no signs on our mattresses.
I am not sure what this bug is but it looks related to a bed bug. The only reason I think it wouldn’t be is that it does not have the lines going horizontal across its body. Also, the head seems to be a different shape.
I am freaking out and any help you could give us would be much appreciated.
Thank you for your time,
Jackie
Hi Mikhail,
That does NOT look like a bed bug, so you can take a deep breath and relax.
I could really use your help determining if this is a bed bug.
My brother killed this bug on our couch. We’ve never had these before and live in an apartment building.
Thanks
Hi,
I took the picture next to a ruler which is in millimeters.
The bug has a hard shell.
Antennae look different.
Thanks,
John
Hi April,
Good News! That does not look like a bed bug and not something that would have bit you.
Hi,
Last night I was sleeping and I woke up with two small white bumps on my collarbone. They turned a bit itchy and pink in color.
I am terrified I have bed bugs. I looked on my mattress and couldn’t find anything.
Thanks.
April
Hi Sarah,
Those look like bed bugs to me! If one was alive, there are more, especially if there are dead ones also. Question: Do you live in an apartment? Did the apartment hire a pest control company lately? Are most of the bugs dead or just two?
Thanks for sharing – it helps others!
Hi! I need help figuring out what type of bugs these are. I’m hoping beyond hope that they’re not bed bugs!
Although I have not gotten any bites within the past 7 nights, my concern lies with the fact that I stayed with a friend who lives in Brooklyn a couple weekends ago. She said she had bed bugs in her place a year ago, but hasn’t noticed a trace of them since. I got a couple bites at her place, but they could have been mosquitoes.
On Saturday night, I noticed this odd bug on my pillow (which was lying on the floor). It was alive, but it didn’t move much, so I squished it. Then I checked my bed sheets (no tiny black/blood stains) and checked under my mattress. Nothing. However, I peeked at the floor under my bed and found 3 more of these little insects. They look like they’ve been dead a while so I’m not convinced I brought them all home last week, but you can never be too sure!
Thanks for checking this out for me!!
Sarah