If you’re sleeping somewhere you normally don’t — a hotel, vacation home or even a dorm or other shared living space — waking up to a mysterious new bug bite could raise your concern about bedbugs.
Small, reddish-brown parasites, bedbugs are similar to lice and fleas in that they feed on the skin’s outer surface. Bedbugs don’t fly and can’t crawl long distances, so they end up on your body in one of two ways: By catching a ride on clothing, luggage, furniture, bedding or similar items that you bring into your home, or possibly crawling through common walls, ceilings or shared pipes in large buildings, said Changlu Wang, an extension specialist in entomology at the Department of Entomology at Rutgers University. People have also been known to get bites at movie theaters, while traveling via buses, trains, planes, rideshares and other less common ways.
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