Stone age bed bugs were humanity’s first pests, scientists reveal

AFP

STONE Age people had a far more troublesome enemy than sabre-tooth tigers — bed bugs.

Their first settlements — like Fred Flinstone’s fictional home of Bedrock — would have been crawling with the blood-suckers.

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The bugs’ numbers exploded when humans moved out of caves, making them the first household pests, researchers say.

In the study, DNA analysis was used to trace back the species...