Water is bed bugs' kryptonite: The parasites avoid wet surfaces at all costs - Peer2Peer

Water is bed bugs' kryptonite: The parasites avoid wet surfaces at all costs

Feb 21, 2026

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.

https://phys.org/news/2026-02-bed-bugs-kryptonite-parasites-surfaces.html

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