Adult bed bugs are wingless insects about one quarter of an inch long and oval in shape.
Show me a picture of a bed bug.
There are 28 pictures below showing the size of a bed bug at different stages in its lifecycle from hatchling to baby to a fully fed adult.
Baby bed bugs can be hard to see as they are semi translucent and as the measurement scale on the image shows they are tiny.
Each bed bug females will lay approximately 3 to 8 eggs and up to 500 eggs over their 10 month life.
Each egg is 1 25 inch and is curved.
Their color is nearly white after molting then ranges from tan to burnt orange.
Many are displayed next to objects to give you an idea of just how small they really are such as the larvae bed bug eggs in item 5 above.
This is a picture of what it looks like to have a bed bug laying on your hand.
They suck blood while you re sleeping or resting mainly at night.
This is a picture of a nymph or bed bug baby after feeding which can be seen in the dark area in the abdomen.
When you consider controlling bed bugs cimex lectularious knowing what to look for pictures of bed bugs is your best defense bed bugs are flat to oval shaped reddish brown insects that are 4 5 mm long.