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Description:

Adults are reddish-brown or brown, oval, flattened, wingless bugs. The hind wings are absent and the front wings reduced to padlike structures. There are many signs of their presence in a home. See the external links at the bottom of this page.

Similar species: Sometimes misidentified as small cockroaches. Also, bat bugs are nearly identical to bed bugs, but their primary host is bats. You need strong magnification to tell them apart: On bat bugs, the hairs along the edge of the pronotum (the shieldlike structure just behind the head) are as long as, or longer than, the width of the eye. On bed bugs, those hairs are shorter than the eye width. Bat bugs can infest human homes just like bed bugs, except they usually arrive on bats. If you have bat bugs, then you probably also have (or had) bats in your home or attic, too. If your bats leave for some reason, then the hungry bugs may wander around and find you.

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