Like stable flies, sucking lice, bed bugs, mosquitoes, true bugs, and aphids, bed bugs have a piercing-sucking mouthpart that consists of a long slender tube which is forced into plant or animal tissue to suck out fluids or blood.<ref>ttp://www.ksre.ksu.edu/library/entml2/s12.pdf</ref> Like mosquitoes and certain other insects, bed bugs inject an anticoagulant into their host before extracting blood, which results in a burning itching in persons who allergically react to the anticoagulant. | Like stable flies, sucking lice, bed bugs, mosquitoes, true bugs, and aphids, bed bugs have a piercing-sucking mouthpart that consists of a long slender tube which is forced into plant or animal tissue to suck out fluids or blood.<ref>ttp://www.ksre.ksu.edu/library/entml2/s12.pdf</ref> Like mosquitoes and certain other insects, bed bugs inject an anticoagulant into their host before extracting blood, which results in a burning itching in persons who allergically react to the anticoagulant. |