the.com/bed bug
A parasite with the travel ambition of a tourist and the patience of a saint.
means A small, wingless, blood-feeding insect that hides in mattresses and furniture by day and bites sleeping people by night.
from Straightforward Old English-rooted compound: 'bed' plus 'bug,' with 'bug' originally meaning a crawling insect (possibly related to an old word for a frightening creature, like 'bugbear'). The name is simply descriptive — it's the bug that lives in your bed — first widely recorded in English once the insect became a well-known household pest, with no elaborate backstory beyond that plain, grim accuracy.
- survival skill
- can go months without feeding
- hiding talent
- fits in a credit card's thickness
- mating style
- males stab females to inseminate them
- detection cue
- attracted to your exhaled carbon dioxide