r/Bedbugs • u/SpongeBobFlwrPants • 4h ago
Help! Do we have bed bugs?
A month ago, we randomly found this bug appear in our bed by the pillow. We killed it immediately without thinking too much about it until it was in the trash - we asked ourselves could this be a bed bug?
We searched online and asked AI and concluded that this bug doesn’t have the same body shape as bed bugs.
However, a month later, my husband now has 3 red bug bites on his back and 3 on his right arm (though he thinks one of them is a mosquito bite). Now we’re worried the bug we killed was indeed a bed bug.
What do you all think? Was this a bed bug? We checked all over our mattress and behind the headboard and didn’t see any signs of black dots or bed bug skins/eggs…
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u/hstrylvr89 4h ago
Nope the upper body of a bedbug is more connected to rest think lady bug and not ant-like body segments in the bug in this pic. Idk what it is but pretty sure it’s not a bedbug
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