Bed Bug Life Cycle, Reproduction and Resources

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Female bed bugs must be fertilized by a male to lay eggs. The female only needs to be fertilized once every 6-8 weeks. She will lay eggs every day after fertilization.

Females can continue laying eggs for up to 6-10 weeks without feeding. Temperature can affect how many eggs are layed and how frequently.

Eggs can take from 7 to 15 days to hatch, depending on enviromental conditions such as temperature.

Baby bed bugs or nymphs will feed aproximately five times before becoming an adult.

Newly hatched bed bugs can live for several months in ideal conditions without a first meal.

Each meal (3-7 days apart) will be followed by a "molt" of their skin.

Each time they molt, they graduate to the next size, until they reach adulthood. That is when females will begin to lay eggs if she can mate.

When a female reaches adulthood she is ready to begin laying 3-5 eggs every day. Females can lay between 200 and 500 eggs in their lifetime.

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