Bed bugs are parasites easily picked up on trains planes and in hotels spreading into one s home.
Yellow bed bug casings.
After mating females lay their eggs into small spaces.
The larger the size the older the bed bug.
Before we discuss bed bug shells and casings any further it may be a good idea to briefly discuss the life cycle of a bed bug.
The eggs hatch in about six to ten days and the bed bug egg becomes a nymph or.
Other common places to find a variety of sizes of bed bug casings are in areas where the ceiling and wall meet along baseboards and also in air conditioners and furniture.
The castings or shells you encounter therefore indicate juvenile bed bugs in the processes of growing rather than adult bed bugs.
Bed bugs go through five life cycles and will shed their casing at the end of each cycle.
A bed bug exoskeleton that has been shed is often known as a shell or casing.
This cast skin is actually the molted exoskeleton of the bug and indicates a bed bug infestation may be in full swing.
These casings are usually the first signs of an infestation.
An adult bed bug will however expand after a blood meal to about twice its original size.
You are less likely to encounter egg casings.
Generally it takes at least seven weeks for a bed bug to grow from an egg to an adult.