Bedbug feeding.

Mating pair (male top) in aggregation of recently fed bedbugs.

The sickle-shaped paramere at the end of the males abdomen penetrates the cuticle of the female and introduces sperm and accessory gland fluids into her body cavity.

Bedbug eggs hatching.

Blood stains seen on this mattress in central Maine presumably resulted from bedbug bites. "If you look these are blood stains from all the times he was bitten," exterminator Al Wilde said.

A bedbug infested mattress in central Maine. "This is the box spring," exterminator Al Wilde said. "Loaded with eggs and live (bedbugs). The whole thing was like that. I told the landlord to toss it."