Do bed bugs stick to bed blankets?

Answer 1

No live bedbugs do not as a rule stick to a bed's blankets but it is possible that bedbug eggs laid by a female bedbug may be stuck to the blankets if they have a hard surface. The live bedbug will have a daytime hiding place either in the bed structure or near the bed. That might be under clutter, (such as clothing strewn around an untidy bedroom), in the furniture near the bed such as a cupboard or chest of drawers, under the carpet, in a holdall or other luggage, in or under the floorboard, in cracks or crevices in the bed structure, in bedroom's walls, or very commonly inside the mattress or in the mattress folds of the bed, and it is more likely that will also be the new eggs will be laid.

The live bedbugs and bedbug nymphs most usually only emerge from their hiding place during hours of darkness when they

crawl on to somebody's body asleep in that bed and then extract an amount of that person's blood into their stomach. They then return to their hiding place or an alternative hiding place were they may lay more eggs and remain there all day digesting their meal unless disturbed.