As they mature their exoskeleton becomes darker.

The first blood meal creates a noticeable dark spot in their digestive track. Nymphs are practically colorless until they have their first blood meal. Nymphs are hatched from the eggs in seven to fourteen days after being laid. Dark cracks and crevices are usually where the eggs are found. These eggs are placed in area where the females are resting to digest their food. The only difference between these two blood suckers is the length of the fringe hairs on the ‘pronotum’ (upper covering of the thorax) of the bed bug is shorter than that of the bat bug.Īdult bat bugs can survive for a year of more without a blood meal in a perfect environment, but a blood feeding is required for a female to produce eggs. It is only under microscopic examination that a trained eye can see the minute difference between them and bed bugs. To the naked eye they appear to be a bed bug. After feeding they appear plump and darker colored due to the blood meal. They are reddish-brown in color and are about 3/8 of inch long. Like all members of this family they are small, oval-shaped and extremely flat when underfed. They are from the family of the Cimicidae.

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