About Bedbugs

Bedbugs are small parasitic insects that subsist on human blood. Bedbugs typically feed in the wee hours of the morning and hide in tiny cracks and crevices during the day. Their bites form small red welts similar to mosquito bites, sometimes in a distinctive linear pattern.

There is no easy way to get rid of bedbugs, and no easy way to tell if a given room is infested.

Over the past few years, a number of cities have reported an alarming rise in bedbug numbers, but there is still very little public awareness of the problem.

You can read more about the bugs at the University of Kentucky's informative site, and find out about how to deal with them in this primer on bedbug control.

Bedbugger.com is one of the best bedbug resources on the web, and has an invaluable bedbug forum with lots of advice and information from fellow sufferers.

The Bedbug Resource page also has some more useful links.

About The Registry

This site helps you check whether other people have encountered bedbugs at a hotel or in an apartment building. Anyone can report a bedbug sighting. We do not release anyone's information without their permission; confidentiality is guaranteed.

Reports are not edited except for spelling and grammar. We can make no guarantees about the accuracy of the information reported here.

This site is administered by Maciej Ceglowski, a computer programmer in San Francisco, and Britta Gustafson, a student at UCSB. It was founded in 2006 after Ceglowski had his first encounter with the insects in a San Francisco motel.