Freaky freeloaders: Bugs that feed on people

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.

Introduces ticks, discussing what they look like, their life cycle, how they affect their hosts, and how people can stay safe from these dangerous bugs.

Introduces tapeworms, discussing what they look like, their life cycle, how they affect their hosts, and how people can prevent getting them.

Readers learn about the many species of mites, their life cycle, what happens to humans when mites burrow and bite, and how to get rid of mites.

Readers learn various facts about lice including what they look like, their life cycle, how people get lice, how to get rid of them, and the different kinds of lice that exist.

Readers learn about the various species of fleas including not only those that crawl on pets, but also the kind of flea that spread the black plague, which killed more than a quarter of the European population during the Middle Ages. Also covered are what fleas look like, where they are found, the life cycle of a flea, and parasitic relationships.

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!.