Why do bedbugs drink blood?

Well, blood is quite a wholesome diet for insects. It has all carbs,protein,and sometimes lipids. When flesh needs munching and liquefication, bedbugs can thrive on juices. And since its a bed,they rely on body juices abundant. Thus blood. read more

Bed bugs will drink the blood of almost any animal, but they love human blood the best, so researchers with fairly small populations to nourish simply roll up their sleeves and strap a container of the insects to their forearms. read more

Bed bugs only feed on blood; they do not feed on spilled food or other food of human origin. When bed bugs feed, they insert their piercing and sucking mouthparts, injecting an anti-coagulant so that the host blood does not clot. read more