When you’ve got a tough exterior, there’s only one way to grow: Shed your skin. Arthropods, the most abundant group of animals on Earth, all possess a hard outer covering called an exoskeleton ...

The findings could have significant implications for pest management industries, which can use some of the chemical / mechanical characteristics of the bed bugs' shed skin to develop small ...

As bed bugs grow, they shed their skin. A bed bug may shed their skin (molt) up to five times within a single life cycle. Bed bugs don’t fly or jump, but they are fast moving, and very good at ...

A bed bug climbs on a shed skin of a bed bug. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the accuracy of news releases posted to EurekAlert! by contributing institutions or for the ...

Telltale signs of bedbug activity include reddish-brown stains, tiny translucent eggs, shed exoskeletons ... your home. Bed bug bites are typically small, red, raised bumps on the skin.