subject: How To Kill Bedbugs: How Many Bugs Do Bed Bugs Lay? [print this page] Bed bugs lay between one and five eggs per day with an incubation period of approximately 10 days. The newly hatched bed bugs will require five significant feedings to reach adult size. They will molt in between feedings by shedding their exoskeleton. Once mature they will begin the process of laying new eggs.
A female bed bug will lay eggs every few days and typically lay 300 to 500 eggs in her life time. The offspring need to feed between each stage and the maturation will be between four and six weeks. The short maturation period of bed bugs and abundant egg production of female bed bugs means that untreated infestations grow very quickly.
Health professionals are noticing that bed bugs are becoming a big problem due to lack of education and resources to deal with the growing infestation. Once stereotyped as a problem isolated to dirty motels and residences, the blood-sucking insects spread quickly by hitch-hiking on peoples clothes and bags, quickly infesting homes, apartments, hotels, health care facilities, shelters, schools, movie theaters, dry cleaners and office buildings pretty much anywhere the bugs can find crevices to hide.
Bedbugs normally bite you while you are sleeping. They get to your blood by piercing the skin and injecting a salivary fluid that causes your blood to flow easier (an anticoagulant) and also anesthetizes your skin, so you won't feel the sting and crush the little vampire. Misconceptions are helping spread the infestation faster and further. Get the facts and then get the Lab Certified, Bedbug Proof Mattress Covers for Bed Bugs and Rest Assured.
