Refresh your knowledge of bed bugs

Editor’s Note: Questions for this month’s test were contributed by Michael Broder; Foster Brusca; Doug Foster; and Mark VanderWerp, BCE. Want to know how you did? The answers are listed at the bottom of the page.

Tech Test Tidbit: On the move

Bed bugs may take advantage of cracks in walls and poorly sealed electrical outlets to move from room to room, which is one of the ways they spread throughout multi-unit housing facilities. The width of a bed bug is about the width of a credit card, so any crack that will let you insert a credit card also may hold a bed bug.