I had an experience where I believe a single bed bug somehow made its home in my home. I was getting occasional bumps on my skin that looked like bites. At firs

I had an experience where I believe a single bed bug somehow made its home in my home. I was getting occasional bumps on my skin that looked like bites. At first I got worried and threw a bunch of my possessions out and inspected my bed area but then I just wrote it off to mosquitos. A few months later I was outside my house and felt something on my neck. After slapping it I came to the conclusion it was most likely a lone bed bug. Not everyone reacts to the bites severely so some just write it off as mosquito bites or a rash like me. Also in order to get an infestation from a hitch hiking bedbug one of the following conditions must be met: 1. A male and female bedbug must both hitch a ride together and later successfully reproduce. OR 2. A pregnant female must hitch a ride. OR 3. There must already be a single bedbug present at your address and the hitchhiking bedbug must be of the opposite sex. These two bedbugs must go on to successfully reproduce. Keep in mind also that the hitchhiker must make it all the way home to the residence and not wander off somewhere before hand. Hotels and people who travel to decent hotels are quite aware of bedbugs too so the chance of encountering bedbugs and taking them home from there is quite low. e.g doing simple stuff like not leaving your luggage on or near your bed mitigates a lot of risk.