Ants, especially the white ant, pay frequent visits to the house, but the worst scourge of all is the ravenous bedbug.
The bedbug is also by no means the harmless creature which it is generally regarded.
The flea, the louse, the bedbug, the house fly, the mosquito, the tick, have all within a few years taken their places as important transmitters of disease.
The wood-tick is a small, rather disgusting-looking creature which, in appearance and size, resembles the common bedbug.
There is only one objection to the box spring: when the bedbug once effects an entrance therein, the days of that spring are numbered, for there is no evicting him.
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Infestation with scabies, lice, fleas, bedbugs and mice is common.
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Susceptible people may also find that shed hairs from the larvae cause irritated itchy welts that may be confused withbedbugbites.
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Bedbugs drop from the higher bunks onto the lower.
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He was reluctant to sleep on the bed after discovering the bedbugs as he entered the room a little after midnight.
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Bedbugs prefer exposed skin, preferably the face, neck and arms of a sleeping person.
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Less commonly, it can also be used to control rodents, powderpost beetles, deathwatch beetles, bark beetles, and bedbugs.
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The hotel staff had used hydrogen cyanide against bedbugs and hadn't cleared the room as prescribed.
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Bedbugwas portrayed as a sleepy character, often seen in bed or at least in bedclothes.
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The drug enters the human bloodstream and if the bedbugs bite during that time, thebedbugwill die in a few days.
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He slept fitfully, constantly waking up to find bedbugs scurrying away after feeding on him.
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Dried leaves are widely used as an arthropod repellent, such as a filling material for mattresses and pillows against fleas, lice and bedbugs.
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Bedbugs have mouth parts that saw through the skin, and inject saliva with anticoagulants and painkillers.
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Now the authorities will crush us like bedbugs.
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The hostel is infamous for bedbugs and poor sanitation but currently it's going under facelift.
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The term bed bug may also be spelled "bedbug" or "bed-bug", though published sources consistently use the unhyphenated two-word name "bed bug".
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