What does the underside of a bedbug look like?
December 19, 2011 10:29 AM Subscribe
What does the UNDERSIDE of a bedbug look like?
I have what I believe is a bedbug, and I'm going to take it to a pest control place to have it clearly identified.
But in the meantime I'm looking at photos online and they are all of the top side. Anyone have a link to photos of the underside?
This one has a lot of white feelers on the bottom which I don't see described anywhere.
I have what I believe is a bedbug, and I'm going to take it to a pest control place to have it clearly identified.
But in the meantime I'm looking at photos online and they are all of the top side. Anyone have a link to photos of the underside?
This one has a lot of white feelers on the bottom which I don't see described anywhere.
Response by poster: Thanks brainmouse. Insufficient: that's the precise word. The google bedbug images vary some, but the images of many of the top side look exactly like what I have, while none of the underside shots look anything like what I have. But there are very few underside shots.
Does anyone know if a lot of "white feelers" is something that some bedbugs have--not little hairs around the edges of the shell, but larger-in-diameter white things that come down out of the body? (These white feelers are not legs. My bug has those too.)
posted by lockedroomguy at 10:51 AM on December 19, 2011
Does anyone know if a lot of "white feelers" is something that some bedbugs have--not little hairs around the edges of the shell, but larger-in-diameter white things that come down out of the body? (These white feelers are not legs. My bug has those too.)
posted by lockedroomguy at 10:51 AM on December 19, 2011
One way (possibly the only way) bedbugs are like kittens is that your AskMe will go a lot better if you post pics.
posted by contraption at 10:55 AM on December 19, 2011 [1 favorite]
posted by contraption at 10:55 AM on December 19, 2011 [1 favorite]
Response by poster: I had thought of that, contraption. No can do.
I'll see the PCO guy before I buy a camera, so thanks anyways, all.
posted by lockedroomguy at 11:04 AM on December 19, 2011
I'll see the PCO guy before I buy a camera, so thanks anyways, all.
posted by lockedroomguy at 11:04 AM on December 19, 2011
If the top side looks like a bedbug, then I think you've probably got a bedbug. The real question is, "Is there anything that looks just like a bedbug, but has white fibers coming off the bottom?" I'm not an entomologist by any stretch, but so far as I know, the answer is "no."
You could have a bedbug that's gotten linty. Or a bedbug that is itself suffering from a parasite or a fungal infection.
posted by ErikaB at 12:32 PM on December 19, 2011
You could have a bedbug that's gotten linty. Or a bedbug that is itself suffering from a parasite or a fungal infection.
posted by ErikaB at 12:32 PM on December 19, 2011
Or a bedbug that is itself suffering from a parasite or a fungal infection.
This was what occurred to me, too. If they're actually part of the bug, so to speak.
Urrrrghghgh, now I've got the willies.
Fungal infection of insects comes up with a lot of hits on the google.
posted by zomg at 1:19 PM on December 19, 2011
This was what occurred to me, too. If they're actually part of the bug, so to speak.
Urrrrghghgh, now I've got the willies.
Fungal infection of insects comes up with a lot of hits on the google.
posted by zomg at 1:19 PM on December 19, 2011
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posted by brainmouse at 10:33 AM on December 19, 2011