A mature bedbug will only live without a meal for one month – Fiction
A mature bedbug can survive a year or more without a blood meal, and mature nymphs can go months without eating.



Bedbugs are only found in the bedroom - Fiction
Actually bedbugs nest in indoor areas where people spend a lot of time. Bedbugs can nest anywhere you spend a lot of time. If that's in your favorite recliner, bedbugs may shelter there. Although they can travel up to 100 feet a night, they like to stay within 8 feet of their favorite meal (you).



Bedbugs only nest on beds – Wrong, Bedbugs are a variety of blood-sucking external parasite that nests near their hosts. Because they're small and relatively flat, they can conceal themselves very effectively in mattress seams, behind headboards, in baseboard cracks, in and under carpeting and behind wallpaper.