[header] How to recognize bed bugs [title] Check for a flat, oval shape. [step] Look at any bugs you find and see if the body has a flat and oval shape. Then check the thickness of the bug.
Bedbugs are usually flat, oval-shaped, and about the thickness of a credit card. Adults are about the size of an apple seed and while juveniles are the size of a poppy seed, but both have the same shape and width.