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No Bedbugs have two sexes just like nearly all creatures on Earth do - the male bedbug and femalebedbug. But unlike such insects as mosquitoes, both male and female bedbugs feed by sucking the blood of humans or other animals.

After a meal of someone's blood (which usually happens when the person is fast asleep in his or her bed), male bedbugs then have their sex by piercing the female's abdomen with his hypodermic genitalia and ejaculate into the female's body cavity. Males will mount the female and the male bedbug's injected sperm goes into the female travel to its sperm storage structures called seminal conceptacles, with fertilisation eventually taking place at the female bed bug's ovaries prior to egg laying, females normally thereafter laying up to a dozen eggs per 24 hour.

After fertilisation of their eggs, female bedbugs then lay their eggs on hard surfaces somewhere near where they feed, which may be in the bed's structure or the mattress or in nearby furniture or under clutter in bedroom or in the floorboards underneath the bed or in an open holdall or in a variety of other possible places close to the bed, where one or more sleeping persons are the source of their food.

The numerous eggs laid normally hatch within a few days and so in an infestation numerous bed bug nymphs are born, comprising some males and some female nymphs, both of whom will need a meal to progress through each one of the 5 nymph stages before becoming a male or female adult bedbug capable of having sex themselves. So over a period of a few months a small number of bed bugs in someone's bedroom can often multiply to many hundreds or in some cases many thousands of new male and female bedbugs, often before their presence is detected.

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