Nasty Little Bugger II: False Positive
On September 25, 2002, in lovely, scenic Brooklyn, New York, under the protection of very bright sunlight (bedbugs are nocturnal, but if they're hungry they will brave the light), I fished out a glue trap that I'd placed behind my bed a couple of months before and found the critter below, which I was convinced was an adult bedbug. An entomologist has since ruled that it was not one, but I've kept the photo up because apparently a lot of other people have thought these are bedbugs, too. It is, I'm told, a German cockroach nymph. Mmm, delightful! Of course, I would always rather have cockroaches than bedbugs.
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Note the long, furry back legs, long antennae, and yellow racing stripes. Here are many photos of actual adult bedbugs. I hope you don't have them.
Last updated 12.16.2006
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