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Water is bed bugs' kryptonite: The parasites avoid wet surfaces at all costs
- February 21, 2026 at 8:30 PM
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Humans tend to fear bed bugs, and rightly so. The bloodsuckers are tough to get rid of once they've entered a home. But new research has, for the first time, identified one thing the bugs seem to fear—water and wet surfaces.
Originally published at Phys.org