- Published30 October 2026
A scientist has chosen to sleep with bedbugs for the past five years - and says the bites "don't bother him at all".
Entomologist Dr Richard Naylor breeds thousands of bedbugs to test pest control products from all over the world and allows himself to be the test subject.
On a "feeding day", which happens around twice a week, he straps some of his 50-60,000 bugs to his arm and gets on with his work. He then sleeps with them on nights when he needs to test out new devices or repellents.
