ArticleScientific reports2021
Mating and starvation modulate feeding and host-seeking responses in female bed bugs, Cimex lectularius.
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- Influence of hematocrit variation on Cimex lectularius (Hemiptera: Cimicidae) development and reproduction.Journal of medical entomology · 2026Article
- Wolbachia-supplemented B-vitamins are critical for blood digestion in the bed bug Cimex lectularius.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Repellency and toxicity of long-lasting insecticide-treated bed nets (LLINs) to bed bugs.PloS one · 2025Article
- Starving infecund widow spiders maintain sexual attractiveness and trade off safety for enhanced prey capture.iScience · 2024Article
- Sexual conflict and sexual networks in bed bugs: the fitness cost of traumatic insemination, female avoidance and male mate choice.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2024Article
- Repellency of N,N-diethyl-3-methylbenzamide (DEET) during host-seeking behavior of bed bugs (Hemiptera: Cimicidae) in binary choice olfactometer assays.Journal of medical entomology · 2024Article
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- Development, feeding, and sex shape the relative quantity of the nutritional obligatory symbiontFrontiers in microbiology · 2024Article
- Behavioral interactions of bed bugs with long-lasting pyrethroid-treated bed nets: challenges for vector control.Parasites & vectors · 2022Article
- Histamine Excretion by the Common Bed Bug (Hemiptera: Cimicidae).Journal of medical entomology · 2022Article
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- Human skin triglycerides prevent bed bug (Cimex lectularius L.) arrestment.Scientific reports · 2021Article
- The Olfactory Chemosensation of Hematophagous Hemipteran Insects.Frontiers in physiology · 2021Review
- Sexual conflict and social networks in bed bugs: effects of social experience.Behavioral ecology : official journal of the International Society for Behavioral EcologyArticle
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Abstract
Reproductive fitness and survival are enhanced by adaptive behaviors that are modulated by internal physiological states and external social contexts. The common bed bug, Cimex lectularius, is an obligate hematophagous ectoparasite that requires host blood for growth, development, and reproduction. We investigated how mating, starvation and social interactions affect host-seeking, blood feeding, oviposition, and survival of female bed bugs. The percentage of females that fed and the amount of blood they ingested were greater in mated females (90-100%) than in unmated females (48-60%). Mating state also modulated the female's orientation towards human skin odor in an olfactometer; more mated (69%) than unmated (23%) females responded to human odors. The response rate of unmated females (60%) to skin odor increased with longer starvation period, while the opposite pattern was observed in mated females (20%). Although fecundity after a single blood meal was unaffected by long or short residence and interaction with males, females subjected to frequent copulation attempts had lower survivorship and lifespan than females housed with males for only 24 h. Taken together, these results indicate that by adaptively and coordinately expressing behaviors based on the internal physiological state, females maximize their survival and reproductive fitness.
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