Believes that bedbugs or some similar wingless parasite conveys the disease.
In 1920 Purdy reintroduced cockroaches into a house from which they had been exterminated, in order to control the bedbugs which had become established.
For years it has been believed that cockroaches feed on bedbugs (Cimex lectularius L.
In India, captive adults and nymphs of two species of house cockroaches would not touch living bedbugs or their eggs (Cornwall, 1916).
Johnson and Mellanby (1939), also in laboratory experiments, were unable to show that bedbugs can be controlled by Blatta orientalis or that bedbugs are eaten to any extent by them.
The basis for this belief may have originated with a statement by Webster (1834) who wrote that bedbugs disappeared aboard "H.
In laboratory experiments Gulati (1930) found that Periplaneta americana ate young bedbugs which had soft, blood-filled abdomens; adult bedbugs with harder exoskeletons sometimes were rejected.
The existing evidence indicates that there is little basis for the often repeated statement that cockroaches destroy bedbugs in nature.
Cockroaches will often "help rid a house of bedbugs by devouring all the little parasites they can capture" (Gaul, 1953).
Bedbugs are difficult to prove as an agent in the transmission of disease but their disgusting habits are sufficient reason for their extermination.
Fleas and bedbugs have been recently added to those insects proven to carry disease to man.
A superstition that it is good luck to catch a bat in one's hat if he doesn't get bedbugs by so doing.
An' Schultz t'ought I was afther bedbugs whin I asked the shteward for the sulphur," he replied.
Mr. Reardon remained by the window a minute, discoursing on the curse of bedbugsaboard a ship, and then with a sigh followed the steward leisurely.
Let a colony av bedbugs move into the Narcissus an' Terence P.
Mr. Schultz marvelled that any man could force his mind to dwell on red lead, leaky pipe connections, sulphur and bedbugs in a ship like the Narcissus at a time like this.
To see bedbugs crawling up white walls, and you throw scalding water upon them, denotes grave illness will distress you, but there will be useless fear of fatality.
To see bedbugs simulating death, foretells unhappiness caused by illness.
Ang kuting ug lamuk mauy bisti sa Sugbu, Bedbugsand mosquitoes are an integral part of Cebu.
I think she had bedbugs in her cabin, but I'm not sure.
Bedbugs cannot stand hot alum water; indeed, alum seems to be death to them in any form.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "bedbugs" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
