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Immature bed bugs molt and shed their skins only after blood feeding. ARS entomologist Mark Feldlaufer collects blood-fed, immature bed bugs that he will isolate in vials to collect individual shed skins for chemical analysis.
Photo by Stephen Ausmus.
