Bedbugs are the stuff of nightmares for most ordinary people.
However, one scientist has boldly volunteered to sleep with the bugs for the past five years and admits the bites don’t bother him anymore.
Entomologist Dr Richard Naylor breeds around 60,000 of the bugs to test control products from across the globe and has been self-appointed as the test subject.
Twice a week, Dr Naylor will give the bugs a ‘feeding day’ where he straps some of the critters to his arm and allows them to bite him, while he gets on with his work.
He will then endure a night in bed with
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