Abstract
Bed bugs are obligate blood-feeding hemimetabolous insect ectoparasites with a life cycle that includes five instars, each requiring a blood meal to molt. Adults live for several months, hiding in crevices where females repeatedly lay clutches of eggs. Bed bugs mate traumatically: the male inserts its genitalia into the female secondary sex organ (spermaledge), then sperm travels to spermatheca through the hemolymph. Humans are parasitized by two bed bug species that are hard to distinguish – Cimex lectularius and Cimex hemipterus.
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