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  "path": "/story/384366/achilles-heel-for-bedbugs-theyre-terrified-of-water.html",
  "publishedAt": "2026-02-28T07:10:00.000Z",
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  "textContent": "Bedbugs, it turns out, really don't like to get their feet wet. Researchers at UC-Riverside report that the household pests strongly avoid damp surfaces, a finding that emerged by accident when a lab feeding device leaked blood into a vial of bedbugs—and the insects refused to go near the...",
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