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Apple seed-sized, flat, brownish bed bugs also known as Cimicidae were once rife all over the world but had been largely wiped out by the banned pesticide DDT.
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Apple seed-sized, flat, brownish bed bugs also known as Cimicidae were once rife all over the world but had been largely wiped out by the banned pesticide DDT.
FOXNews.com 2011
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A Googling of bedbugs reveals that they are defined as any one of the roughly 75 species of Cimicidae that nocturnally feed on humans or other warm-blooded creatures.
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BUG, the common name for hemipterous insects of the family _Cimicidae_, of which the best-known example is the house bug or bed bug (_Cimex lectularius_).
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria" Various
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Practical Solutions for Treating Laundry Infested With Cimex lectularius (Hemiptera: Cimicidae)
Research Blogging - All Topics - English Cheshire Cheshire 2010
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Practical Solutions for Treating Laundry Infested With Cimex lectularius (Hemiptera: Cimicidae)
Research Blogging - All Topics - English Cheshire, Cheshire 2010
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