The following arthropods were submitted to the lab for identification from a daycare center. What is your identification? What are the implications for this facility?
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9 comments:
Bedbugs
Bedbugs!! Looks like a nymph since it is see-through?? Definitely fall in the dreadful category and not the wonderful one. :-0
Cimex lectularius
Agree with bedbugs
Bedbug
It’s a bug, the pair bugs in bed. Sure both Cimex lectularius and hemipterus bugs people in their bed, though they can be found in cracks and crevices of the housing, the luggage as well. The pictures show a deeply concave front edge of the pronotus and the hairs are shorter than the width of the eyes, these two facts help us rule out the bat bug Cimex adjunctus.
Florida Fan
Florida Fan beat me to it:
The hairs are shorter than the width of the eyes, so Cimex lectularius: the bed bug!
Quite a feared pest. Rumor goes that Parisian cinemas as well as public transport are having problems with it….
As for the implications, these critters are night-biters in my recollection, and are not known to transmit any diseases if I’m correct. So for a daycare center the impact doesn’t seem too big, no? Nevertheless, I’d try to get rid of’em before someone takes one of these bugs home and spreads the problem…
Cimex lectularius
( Sir Galahad )
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