Last but not least on our list of bugs that look like bed bugs booklice look a lot like bed bug nymphs.
Are bed bugs gray in color.
They are usually a translucent or whitish yellow in color unless they have recently fed and then they are a red color.
Nymphs baby bed bugs are nearly colorless when they first hatch and become brownish as they mature.
They are normally white or near white.
Unfed adult bed bugs are mahogany to rusty brown color.
Booklice are commonly mistaken for bed bug nymphs.
They can often be found under wallpaper and along the sides of windows and window sills.
When they first hatch the bed bugs are colorless but they become brown as they grow.
Lone bed bugs prefer to be in black harborages while red harborages appear to be the optimum harborage color for bed bugs in more natural mixed aggregations.
Bed bugs can be identified and differentiated from other pests by their s ix legs.
Bed bugs might mistake red and black colored harborages for their other bed bug buddies since bed bugs prefer to harbor in clusters rather than individually.
Some bed bugs may even have darker spots on their backs.
They are very prolific and a female bed bug can lay approximately five eggs in 1 day and about 500 during her lifetime.
Small in size they do not feed on blood but on fungi pollen mold etc.
Fed bed bugs become swollen and more elongated.
A change in egg color may suggest that the bed bug is dead.
Engorged bed bugs are red brown color after a blood meal.
Once bed bug eggs are dead they may dry out and change in color.
Booklice are commonly mistaken for bed bug nymphs.
Are bed bugs eggs grey once they are dead.
The additional red color after the mature bed bug feeds can be explained by the color of your blood.
Their colors range from translucent white to gray or brown.
Unfed bed bugs are flat and broad oval.
They are smaller in size ranging from translucent white to gray or brown in color.
However this is not always the case.
Sometimes booklice are mistaken for bed bug nymphs because of their light color but their elongated shape and pronounced head helps to identify them.
They can often be found under wallpaper and along the sides of.
Their primary food source is fungi pollen mold and fragments of dead insects.
There are other factors to egg color classification such as bug genetics.
Juveniles are often a translucent tan color.
Adult bed bugs are usually a shiny rusty red color.
They are translucent white gray or light brown and have three clear body segments.
An adult book louse is much smaller than an adult bed bug growing only from 1 1 5 mm long.
Adult but unfed bed bugs have a rusty brown color.
Keep an eye out for more bugs but most likely what you saw was not a bed bug.
