Bed Bugs Appearance

Bed Bugs Appearance

Adult bed bugs, in general, are:

• about the size of an apple seed (5-7 mm or 3/16 - 1/4 inch long)
• long and brown, with a flat, oval shaped body
• balloon like, reddish brown, and more elongated
• a "true bug" (include a beak with three segments; antenna with four parts; wings not used for flying; and short, golden-colored hairs)
• smelly, with a musty sweetish odor

Young bed bugs, in general, are:

• smaller, translucent or whitish-yellow in color
• if not recently fed, can be nearly invisible to the naked eye because of coloring and size

Bed bugs eggs, in general, are:

• tiny, the size of a pinhead
• pearl-white in color
• marked by an eye spot if more than five days old