Mosquitoes have caused various life threatening diseases in tropical countries like India especially during the monsoons. These small creatures carry disease causing viruses which cause malaria, filaria and dengue fever from one person to the other, from one animal to the other and from animal to human and vice versa.
Parasites are nasty little organisms that benefit from what they can take from their hosts. Our enemy the bed bug is one of these type parasites. They live on blood from mainly humans and then warm blooded animals if necessary. The name comes from their favorite place to sleep, which is in your warm bed. They started reappearing around 1995, after nearly being eradicated in the 1940’s. Read on and find out about bed bugs and bed bug pictures.
In the places where warm blooded animals sleep, you will find bed bugs. These tiny parasitic insect have one food: the blood of birds and mammals. They are more transferred in places where different animals interact. For humans, that means hospitals, apartment buildings, the workplace and schools. Bed bugs are less likely in rural areas then in the city. This was not always the case.