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Bed bugs have been bothering humans for 60,000 years
“That makes sense because modern humans moved out of caves about 60,000 years ago,” added study co-author and Virginia Tech entomologist Warren Booth. “There were bed bugs living in the caves with these humans, and when they moved out they took a subset of the population with them so there’s less genetic diversity in that human-associated lineage.”
Meet the very first human pest, which has been bugging us for 60,000 years
From fleas to mosquitoes, there's no shortage of organisms we like to consider pests – and, not surprisingly, the majority are insects, which account for up to 90% of animals on the planet. But thanks to new genetic detective work,
The researchers found that, unlike the bat lineage of bed bugs, the human lineage grew dramatically around 13,000 and 7,000 ...
Combined, that's roughly the weight of a small human adult ... since the insects do not use internal energy to generate their own body heat. And mealworms—which are actually the larval ...
Bed bugs have been biting humans since they emerged from caves around 60,000 years ago making them possibly the “first true ...
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