There is good reason to believe that the bedbugs must have evolved from certain winged insects like the fleas and mosquitoes as upon closer examination one can notice the remains of wings on the backs of bedbugs. Even the lengthy body shape of the bedbugs is suggestive of an earlier flying creature.
The flat and tubular body shape of the bedbugs enables them to easily and stealthily slip into narrow crevices. A sort of reddish brown is the natural color of a bedbug - although at times, they appear in golden tawny color. If you study carefully, you will observe that most insect species look similar. For instance, all ants or honey bees look alike. The same is true of bedbugs.
Interestingly, every creature that lives on earth today has evolved from an earlier life form. Researchers say the understanding of the evolution process requires in-depth analysis of fossil remains of creatures that existed in the remote past.
There is not much of evolution in evidence now presumably because all existing creatures are more stable and do not change. Evolution only occurs when something disturbs the equilibrium in such a way as to threaten a species with extinction.
Bedbugs were earlier flying bugs which subsequently evolved into crawlers and began biting human beings to suck human blood. Of course, it is a fact that human beings are more susceptible to insect bites as they have no protective fur or feathers enveloping their bodies.
The best time to bite a human being is when they are in a sound sleep. Since earliest men lived in open tents and led nomadic lives with their herds of animals, a flying bug would have found it more convenient to be a bug that could squeeze through cracks and crevices so as to gain access to a tent at night.
The bugs then chose to remain in hiding inside the tent so as to avoid being swatted or crushed. Besides, bedbugs have a strong affinity for all natural fibers. As these were the materials the primitive men carried with them whenever they shifted places, the bedbugs also traveled with the men.
Thus, being a crawling bug was lot more convenient than being a flying bug which would then have to persistently keep searching for new tent. Besides flying around inside a tent would have exposed them to getting swatted. So, flying would be perilous while crawling and hiding would be safer for survival.
Another interesting factor is much energy would be burned by the flying bugs in hunting for human blood with increased risk, whereas the crawling bug which goes into hiding is able to save energy and requires less food.
Studies have revealed that present day bedbugs only bite once every week which minimizes their exposure and consequent risk of being swatted. A crawling bug which hides within natural fibers is an energy-conserving creature.
A plausible explanation why a mosquito-like bug has evolved into the bedbug of today has validity though seemingly weird. When human population increases, there is a perceptible decline in animal population, and this presumably leads the flying insects to evolve into the higher species of livestock and livestock to human beings.
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