A study examines links among feeding cues, mating-associated infection, and immune-system upregulation in female bed bugs. Insects can adapt immune responses to defend against predicted infections.

If you wake up in the morning and feel itchy in areas such as your hands, ankles, neck, face, arms, or abdomen, and you notice that the bites do not have a red spot in the center like most insect ...

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They're small, blood-sucking parasites perhaps living in the corners and crevices of our beds, feeding off us while we sleep. Bed bugs, for decades, existed as myths, part of a rhyme our parents told ...