Bed bugs appear to have a strong preference for particular colours!
According to the work in the Journal of Medical Entomology, the blood-sucking insects love black and red but hate yellow and green.
This information could help make better traps to lure and catch the bugs.
But it is too soon to say if yellow sheets can stop them living in your bed.
Bed bugs are tiny and they like to live in the seam of your mattress. They like to live close to their next meal – your blood.
Scientists carried out a series of experiments in their lab, placing bed bugs in dishes with different colour shelters made out of card.
Rather than taking cover at random, the bugs appeared to select the shelters according to their colour, showing a preference for black and red.
16 Responses
wow that’s good now we can stop them
Yay they Can Sop The Bed Bugs Now.
AHHHH THEY SUCK BLOOD
noooo they have to stop
Yay thank God we can stop them
yes that will work cause sometimes when im in my bed I feel stuff moving around
phew! i’m so glad we can stop the bed bugs now!
I don’t even know if there are bedbugs in my bed. ?
I think it’s time to change my blankets to yellow and green…….
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wow happy face i have never had bed bugs but my friend has and she almost died sad face but shes still alive but has a bed bug alegy
cool
You Probably think there bed bugs that go around in your bed sucking your blood. It is not its probably just fleas or mosquitoes
but my blankets and sheats are white and blue! _ ___ _
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i know i sound dumb, but I did not know that bed bugs existed!
cool one of the filling in teachers told us that pulling the cover back will stop them as well
we do not have bed bugs