UNBUGLIEVABLE
Daily Star Sunday|June 30, 2024
Brits mistake spiders & beetles for parasites
DOMINIK LEMANSKI
UNBUGLIEVABLE

DOPEY Brits can't tell bed bugs from spiders.

Just one in five of the examples sent to pest checkers turned out to be a parasite.

Worried folk sent 200 "bed bugs" for boffin Dr Richard Naylor to identify last year - but just 40 were the real thing.

This story is from the June 30, 2024 edition of Daily Star Sunday.

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