What behavior makes Bed bugs repulsive despite not being visually gruesome?

Answer

Their secretive, vampiric habits of biting sleeping humans in darkness.

Bed bugs are repulsive due to their secretive, vampiric habits—sneaking out at night to crawl over and bite sleeping humans—rather than their appearance or disease load.

What behavior makes Bed bugs repulsive despite not being visually gruesome?
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