![]() Before they feed, their shells are almost like a fingernail, which makes it tough to crush them. To accommodate all their food, this rear part of their body is nowhere near as rigid, which makes it easy to burst.Īfter they feed, then, they become easy to pop. It would be like if your belly could expand to a hundred times the size when you ate. When they feed, the back half of their body expands so that they can drink more and more. However, the rear section of their body is more flexible. The fact that it’s inflexible is why they have to shed their shell so frequently throughout their lives as they grow. It gives their body structure, and is hard enough to last through a fight. ![]() That’s because their shell is an ‘exoskeleton.’ Insects have a hard casing that acts almost as the human skeleton does. Do Bed Bugs Have Hard Shells?īed bug shells are relatively rigid. Have you ever woken up in the morning, knowing you’ve been bitten by bed bugs? And when you lift the sheet, there’s a big smear of blood-not just drops, but quite a lot? That’s what happens when you squash a bed bug that’s just fed. ![]() In fact, you might have noticed this happen before. But if they’ve just fed, you can pop them easily. A bed bug that hasn’t fed for a long time has a hard shell, which makes it difficult to squash. 2.2 Do Bed Bugs Smell When You Kill Them?ĭo bed bugs pop when you squeeze them? Whether you can squeeze a bed bug or not depends on whether they’ve recently fed.1 I Squished a Bed Bug and Blood Came Out.
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