Bed bugs that have just had a blood meal will appear elongated as seen in the picture below whereas bed bugs that have not eaten in a while will appear flat and oval shaped 51.
Show me a picture of a bed bug.
Each bed bug females will lay approximately 3 to 8 eggs and up to 500 eggs over their 10 month life.
Adult bed bugs are wingless insects about one quarter of an inch long and oval in shape.
This is a picture of what it looks like to have a bed bug laying on your hand.
Each egg is 1 25 inch and is curved.
There are 28 pictures below showing the size of a bed bug at different stages in its lifecycle from hatchling to baby to a fully fed adult.
Their color is nearly white after molting then ranges from tan to burnt orange.
This is a picture of a nymph or bed bug baby after feeding which can be seen in the dark area in the abdomen.
Many are displayed next to objects to give you an idea of just how small they really are such as the larvae bed bug eggs in item 5 above.
When you consider controlling bed bugs cimex lectularious knowing what to look for pictures of bed bugs is your best defense bed bugs are flat to oval shaped reddish brown insects that are 4 5 mm long.
Pictures of bed bu g eggs.