Everything Leine said above. My wife is PARANOID about me bringing them home. STD, no problem..........."bed bugs, your a dead man" <--only a slight exaggeration.

Best one liner I heard on a TV show talking about how to avoid/get rid of the little ba...rds.

"The BAD news is they don't transmit disease". "If they did, there would be more of a priority by chemists, etc to find something that would kill them" (now that DDT is illegal).