Answer: Bed bugs do not bite right away. They wander about looking for just the right place. If you are awake, you'll feel a slight tickling sensation, which is the only clue that you are being bitten.
Bed bugs have a beak with mouth parts that saw through or puncture the skin, and a proboscis with two tubes. One injects saliva containing anticoagulants and painkillers, the other sucks up the blood directly out of the capillaries.
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