If you wake up in the morning and feel itchy in areas such as your hands, ankles, neck, face, arms, or abdomen, and you notice that the bites do not have a red spot in the center like most insect ...

As the human population increased and living in communities and cities expanded, the human-associated lineage of bed bugs experienced an exponential growth in their effective population size.

Humans were letting the bed bugs bite long before beds existed, and while they do live on other species, we're the main reason this notorious parasite is still going strong. In fact, bed bugs ...

The sight of even one bed bug makes most people cringe. But the sheer number of bed bugs that may occur in severe ...

In the 1960s, bed bugs seemed doomed. After centuries of living in the shadows and tormenting humanity, we were this close to ...

New research shows that bed bugs may be the oldest known pest to follow humans around, infesting our beds for over 60,000 years.

Health scare Bed bugs have been around for as long as humans have but little is known about how they spread Understanding more about bed bug dispersal and spatial distribution could help give a ...

As humans increased their population size and continued living in communities and cities expanded, the human-associated lineage of the bed bugs saw an exponential growth in their effective ...

Bed bugs are a nuisance that often infect travelers in hotel rooms or used furniture that's brought into a new home. For thousands of years, bed bugs have enjoyed living off their human hosts, and it ...

Ever since a few enterprising bed bugs hopped off a bat and attached themselves to a Neanderthal walking out of a cave 60,000 years ago, bed bugs have enjoyed a thriving relationship with their ...

Researchers also looked at the genome data of these bed bugs, and are looking for evolutionary differences that may be found between human-associated and bat-associated bed bugs.

Bed bugs have been biting humans since they emerged from caves around 60,000 years ago making them possibly the “first true urban pest,” a new study found.