Parasitic bugs of the family CIMICIDAE. Female bed bugs lay eggs in a sheltered locations such as in mattress seams. Adults and nymphal instars of Cimex feed on warm-blooded hosts. Cimex lectularius and Cimex hemipterus are implicated in human infestations.
    

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Report of the Committee on Bed-Bug Infestation : 1935-1940.

Donovan, Charles (1863-1951)

The bed-bug : its habits and life-history and how to deal with it / by Bruce F. Cummings.

Report on the bed-bug.

Note on the infection of a mouse by means of bed-bugs, Cimex hemiptera Fabr., fed on the peripheral blood of a case of kala-azar / by H.E. Shortt and C.S. Swaminath.

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Report of the Committee on Bed-Bug Infestation : 1935-1940.

Donovan, Charles (1863-1951)

The bed-bug : its habits and life-history and how to deal with it / by Bruce F. Cummings.

Report on the bed-bug.

Note on the infection of a mouse by means of bed-bugs, Cimex hemiptera Fabr., fed on the peripheral blood of a case of kala-azar / by H.E. Shortt and C.S. Swaminath.