Under everyone’s mattress hides parasites. Bed bugs are one of the most common insects in America. However it is only in the recent years that bed bugs are categorized as pests. With increase of immigrant and travelers from different places, bed bugs thrive in hotels, restaurants, shelters, homes, apartments and motels.

Bed bugs have been exterminated from the US soil sometime in 1940's and the 1950's. The use of DDT has been succesful in eradicating these pests. However, international travelling and immigration have brought back to the US the exterminated, blook sucking pests. And establishments that are said to be the bed bugs exchange centers are: One, busses, two, trains, three, cabs, four, airplanes, and five, hotel rooms, six, motels and breakfast-inns.

Is a bed bug a :
Small winged insects that feed on mites
Small insects that feed on human and animal blood
or The larvae of a type of mite?
If you don't know, and I bet you don't unless your hobby is insectology, you might benefit from the quizz on this page that will take you through a series of questions to teach you all about those nasty creatures that plague even the cleanest homes and families.