The man who sleeps with thousands of bedbugs for science

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The bed that Dr Richard Naylor sleeps in with the bed bugs. // Entomologist Dr Richard Naylor breeds thousands of bedbugs and chooses to sleep with them. After sleeping with thousands of them, he has managed to become immune to the parasites. He said he often gets anaemic from the bedbugs sucking his blood. Dr Naylor runs a not-for-profit called the Bed Bug Foundation and has a research laboratory set up in a self-contained two-bedroom suite in his garden in the Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire. Dr Naylor said he believes he has been bitten "millions and millions" of times. Photo released 06/11/2026

A scientist studies bed bugs by sleeping with thousands of them in a laboratory at the bottom of his garden.

Entomologist Dr Richard Naylor, 45, bre...

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