Bedbug Infestation and Its Control Practices in Gbajimba: A Rural Settlement in Benue State, Nigeria (Report‪)‬

Introduction The common bedbug Cimex lectularius Linnaeus 1758 (Hemiptera: Cimicidae) is a globally re-emerging pest of serious public health concern. They are bloodsucking ectoparasites that infest human habitations, and usually feed during the night when host is sleeping (1). The mouthparts of bedbugs are especially adapted to feed on blood of humans, bats, chicken and occasionally domesticated animals (2). Bedbugs seem to posses all of the necessary prerequisites for being capable of transmitting human diseases, but there have been no known cases of bedbug transmitting human diseases even though about 27 known pathogens have been reported to be capable of surviving inside bedbugs or its mouthparts (3).