Definition of bedbug
:a wingless bloodsucking hemipterous bug (Cimex lectularius) sometimes infesting houses and especially beds and feeding on human blood
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Bedbugs were practically nonexistent until the late 1990s.
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Finding bedbugs in a library is not an uncommon problem.
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Elyria police and firefighters arrived Wednesday afternoon and found the children, ranging in age from 2 to 15, soaked with sweat, infested with lice and covered with flea and bedbug bites.
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A video posted to Facebook shows insects, described by those in the video as bedbugs, crawling out of the benches.
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What's hot: The website is not just about where to go; it is also stocked with important articles about allergies, vaccinations, bedbugs, and illness.
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The bed might be infested with bedbugs, but the TV remote will be germ-free.
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Sleep tight and don’t let the bedbugs bite, everybody!
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What’s hot: The website is not just about where to go; it is stocked with important articles about allergies, vaccinations, bedbugs and illness.
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