Readers learn various facts about bed bugs including their life cycle, how they survive on human blood, their habitat, and what happens to a person's body when he or she gets a bedbug bite. Tips on locating and getting rid of bedbugs are included.
Readers learn various facts about bed bugs including their life cycle, how they survive on human blood, their habitat, and what happens to a person's body when he or she gets a bedbug bite. Tips on locating and getting rid of bedbugs are included.
Bedbugs get their name from the fact that they like to hide where people sleep. Then, they come out in the middle of the night and make a meal of human blood! Readers learn many icky facts about these bugs that support science curriculum topics, such as life cycles and relationships between parasites and hosts. They also learn what happens to a person's body when they get a bedbug bite. Helpful tips on finding and getting rid of bedbugs are included, too. Vivid photographs of bedbugs seem to crawl right off the page!.
Susan Wendt and her husband move into their dream apartment, a renovated brownstone with ridiculously low rent, but she begins to wonder if she is losing her mind when she awakens every morning with fresh bedbug welts, even though her husband and daughter do not suffer a single bite, and the exterminator can find no evidence of the pests.
Presents an introduction to bedbugs, in simple text with illustrations, providing information where they live, what they do, and how they work, and how bedbug parasites can be controlled. Includes glossary and index.
Discusses the history of bedbugs, mites, and ticks, examines their family trees, anatomy, life cycles, predators, and prey, and looks at myths and facts about the insects.
