How long a bed-bug lives without any food or little food? And where?

They can live for about 18 months just living off of the dead skin cells that shed from you while you sleep.

Bedbugs are generally active only at night, with a peak attack period about an hour before dawn, though given the opportunity, they may attempt to feed at other times of day. Attracted by warmth and the presence of carbon dioxide, the bug pierces the skin of its host with two hollow tubes. With one tube it injects its saliva, which contains anticoagulants and anesthetics, while with the other it withdraws the blood of its host. After feeding for about five minutes, the bug returns to its hiding place. The bites cannot usually be felt until some minutes or hours later, as a dermatological reaction to the injected agents. Although bedbugs can live for up to 18 months without feeding, they typically seek blood every five to ten days.

Bedbugs are often erroneously associated with filth. They are attracted by exhaled carbon dioxide, not by dirt, and they feed on blood, not waste. In short, the cleanliness of their environments has no effect on bedbugs. Their numbers may be reduced temporarily by vacuuming, but will recover and require vacuuming again.

It depends on the bug I think. They are different type of "Bed bugs" bugs tend to live only for a couple a days to a month. They eat, reproduce then die, simple as pie.

mattress bugs have not got poison in them. you would be ok, do only no longer scratch your self. you're no longer having an allergic reaction or something. "fairly, mattress bugs are no longer time-honored as a substantial vector of ailment. they do no longer transmit malaria, or encephalitis or different illnesses the way mosquitoes do (case in point). All they do is suck your blood once you're asleep, and poop little blood stains onto your mattress sheets. that's fairly icky, yet no longer existence threatening. Their saliva isn't venomous, yet as your physique reacts to it, it frequently produces itching and rashes. Which only provides to the ick element. so as that they are no longer fairly a wellness project, different than the stress they generate and ability loss of sleep for their sufferers."

upto 18 months and Bedbugs are often erroneously associated with filth. They are attracted by exhaled carbon dioxide, not by dirt, and they feed on blood, not waste. In short, the cleanliness of their environments has no effect on bedbugs. Their numbers may be reduced temporarily by vacuuming, but will recover and require vacuuming again

Wow I never thought that bed-bugs were real!! Thats nuts!! I would go to www.ask.com to see though

I've heard that the bed-bugs that Washington slept with in the 1700s- are STILL with us, & that they're all over the place now- because he slept in so many places! Thanks alot- George!

Some considerable time. They live on sheets and in cracks in the wall etc.

they eat your dead skin.... and you loose it all the time... so they will last for a long time.

a month.