Just curious as to wether or not bed bugs are capable of producing silk.
No. Bedbugs are not capable of producing silk. Even though they are arachnids like spiders, they cant. Spiders are the only aracnids who have use for it.
Bed bugs cannot produce silk. Bed bugs belong to small specialized group within large order of insects, the Hemiptera, most of which feed by piercing vegetation and sucking sap. The bed bug family Cimicidae also includes the bat bugs, chicken bugs, swallow bugs, pigeon bugs and others. Usinger (1966) cites 74 species arranged in 22 genera and six subfamilies and that 12 the genera associated exclusively with bats and nine with birds. Only the genus Cxmex has species that attached to bats and others that birds. There only three species of human bed bugs. Lepjiocijnex bouetj Brumpt bats and locally in West Africa. Cimex hemipterus attacks man, chickens and rarely bats throughout the Old and New World Tropics. Cimex lectularj-us is associated with man, bats, chickens, and occasionally other domestic animals most of the world.
