Bug of temperate regions that infests especially beds and feeds on human blood.
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Examples for "bedbug"
Examples for "bedbug"
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The place was full of roaches and occasionally I killed a bedbug.
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During decades of low bedbug infestation, scientists didn't study them much.
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Well, just some of his nutty stuff, I guess; he's crazier'n a bedbug.
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Grey crushed another bedbug, but his mind was not on it.
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First, you're not a real bedbug but a pirate bug, a close cousin.
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Yes, they introduce diseased chinch bugs into the grain fields with the healthy ones.
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In summer they eat Colorado potato beetles, chinch-bugs, cotton boll-weevils, squash-beetles, grasshoppers and cutworms.
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There are a great many bugs injurious to vegetation, among them the little chinch bugs.
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The chinch-bug is responsible for the loss of five per cent., or one bushel out of every twenty.
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I ain't no pulpit chinch.
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The bed bug, Cimex lectularius, has re-established itself as a ubiquitous human ectoparasite throughout much of the world during the past two decades.
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Don't let the Cimex Lectularius bite.
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Even if making a new bed bug insecticide were lucrative, there are other challenges.
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This requires intimate knowledge of the bed bug's basic biology.
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Thus, 88% of the bed bug populations collected showed target-site mutations.
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Common bed bug under an electron microscope.
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The worst aspect about this is that we thought we had tackled the bed bug problem before.
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Reactions to bed bug bites vary widely, from no reaction at all to lots of swelling and redness.
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Since the late 1990s, the bed bug has become an increasingly common urban nuisance in homes and hotels worldwide.
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There is a clear increasing trend of reports of "acute illnesses" related to bed bug control over time.
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The publication also claimed allegations of bed bug infestations at the hotel were raised with officials as early as April.
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This close relation of the bed bug has mating habits that make even the Argentine lake duck's look relatively tame.
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Don't use luggage racks, closet shelves, or drawers during your stay unless you feel confident that they are bed bug free.
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The bed bug, Cimex lectularius, has re-established itself as a ubiquitous human ectoparasite throughout much of the world during the past two decades.
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These data suggest that deltamethrin resistance conferred by target-site insensitivity of sodium channel is widely spread in bed bug populations across the United States.
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The current study was undertaken to investigate the distribution of these two kdr mutations in 110 bed bug populations collected in the United States.
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Or, is there any relief to be found in the myriad bed bug products and services on the market, from growth regulators to heat treatments?
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Another study showed that in London alone, bed bug treatments grew by a quarter each year between 2000 and 2006.