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Beetle? Infesting mattress and cloth chair in NYC - Cimex lectularius
Copyright © 2006 easterncosmo

Beetle? Infesting mattress and cloth chair in NYC - Cimex lectularius
New York City, New York, USA
Size: Popcorn kernal sized
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Contributed by easterncosmo on 14 December, 2006 - 11:47pm
Last updated 13 December, 2010 - 11:41am

Lice?
Looks like you got a lice in the smallest picture. And the first picturre looks like a bed bug. I'm not sure about the larvae.

Paolo
… Paolo Sanguankeo, 15 December, 2006 - 10:07pm login or register to post comments

 
Baby bed bug.
I think this is a bed bug nymph (juvenile, immature). The adults aren't that big, so a nymph, early on, probably IS the same size as a louse!
… Eric R. Eaton, 19 December, 2006 - 2:38pm login or register to post comments

 
I think it's a bed bug nymph, too
Yeah, it doesn't look quite like the lice pictures I looked at, and also it just seems like too much of a coincidence that there were a bunch of these things right where the clusters of bed bug eggs were.
… easterncosmo, 19 December, 2006 - 2:41pm login or register to post comments

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