Bed Bugs Can Live In Vacant Houses A Long Time

The bedbug is an ancient and cosmopolitan insect, existing throughout the world. It has become wholly domesticated, and lives entirely in human dwellings, hiding away in crevices by day, and coming out to suck the blood of its unfortunate host by night. Normally its life round requires about three months, but it can exist for a long time in a house temporarily vacated. In cities it sometimes migrates from vacant residences to others near by that are occupied. The young are similar in shape to the adults, and, like their parents, have a strong sucking beak.