A bed bug’s life begins with an egg, about the size of a grain of salt, oval in shape and cloudy white in color. To the naked eye, bed bug eggs are difficult to see and look like grains of sand from a distance.
Female bed bugs product one to five eggs at a time. A single female bed bug can lay up to 500 eggs within its lifetime. Eggs are often placed within tight cracks or crevices, and they glue their eggs to the surface using a sticky secretion. Within two weeks, eggs hatch and bed bugs begin to feed.