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I seem to have upset you. I’m sorry. It was never my intention to confuse you.[/QUOTE]
No worries! I was just trying to figure out how gaining weight for sexual purposes would help get rid of spiders or whatever I seemed to be plagued with.
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minute pirate bugs? We’re having a problem with them now. Do you have any crops growing around you? We have corn and hay fields around us and this is the first year we’ve had a problem with these bugs. I am bit from head to toe. You can’t see them when they’re babies but they still pack a heck of a bite. When full grown they look like fleas but they fly, they don’t jump and they smoosh like a regular bug. They are driving me crazy.[/QUOTE]
I guess you would have to define around us. There definitely aren’t any growing in my bedroom which is where I have gotten bit every time. The first bite was back in March, don’t think much was growing back then. Hopefully this mystery will be solved and eradicated momentarily.
They are so tiny they get in no matter what. The first time I got bit while I was sleeping. I flipped thinking bedbugs. It took a couple weeks to figure out what they were. Now I get bit outside. I look like a heroine addict with bad aim. Everyone that sees me freaks out asking what happened. I’m that bit up.
There is corn about half a mile to 3/4 of a mile away.
Hmm this is interesting. Ive had a similar thing going on. Mine is on my left outer thigh and about 8 inches long…3 inches wide. It has a couple spot on it that look like they could be bites, and the skin is raised and red. I think ive gotten it in bed.
Does this sound at all like what you have?
I went to my derm for my yearly check and had her take a look. She glanced at it, measured it and declared she didnt know what it could be (uhhhh ok) and gave me the strongest steroid cream she has.
I didnt like her answer, so I havent used the cream yet. I’m acutally headed to my PCP in an hour for a different reason, but am going to have him look at it as well.
Let us know what the exterminator says!
That sounds way bigger than what I have. This is the latest bites which are nowhere near as awful as the first few times but still suck. That is about a 2X2 inch square.
hmm, nope. Not what mine looks like at all.
It sure is a buggy spring/summer already…
Looks like spiders of some kind. Better than bedbugs I guess.
You poor thing! Another vote for spiders here. I go thru the exact same thing now & again, & unfortunately for an arachnophobic like me, have actually seen the offending critters at times. Ugh!
Unfortunately both common “House Spiders” and the much nastier Brown Recluse LOVE hiding in bed linens, towels, laundry baskets, piles of clothing, etc., etc. I shake out EVERYTHING thoroughly before using it.
He found 6 cellar spiders in the bedroom as well as some other spider he did not recognize. He said he had never known a cellar spider to bite but that any of them are capable of biting. He didn’t see any evidence of bed bugs but set some traps for them just in case. Hopefully this is over!
I agree with your guy that it’s doubtful you’re being bitten by “Cellar Spiders”. I have them here too, & frankly they’re probably one of the only spiders that don’t send me into a tailspin. For starters, they’re not hiders. They’re very spindly & fragile - wouldn’t last long at all under bed sheets. They make a light straggly web - usually in a high-up corner somewhere - & stay in it. Like, forever until they die. They wouldn’t be walking around in your bed.
They were in webs under the bed though which is the only reason he thought it was possible. Maybe whatever the unidentified one was the culprit? It was super tiny, about the size of a tick and had a web behind the curtain on hubby’s side of the bed.
I scratched mine raw and bloody. I have big scabs all over me, except my face. These things don’t bite your face for whatever reason. Definitely not cellar spiders. We’re loaded with them and have never been bitten.
My first and only thought after reading the whole thread: spiders. Baby spiders can bite. And those dang things are itty bitty.
Glad you had somebody come out.
I have had bites in the bed too. I have awakened at night with an itch on my leg and I swear it had to be a spider.
My husband is the vacuumer in our household these days. I do have him get under the bed and in the bedroom really well.
I have other bug bites on me right now. UG. Hate bugs that bite!
I do not think bed bugs.
Spiders of some sort.
Vacuum EVERYWHERE and frequently. Ya just have to.
I bet it’s the babies of the one under the bed. And if you see little moldy, very flat patches that look like some kind of fungus-they’re spider eggs also. And I meant between the mattress and inside frame, if it’s the kind of bed that has the frame with the vertical frame sticking up to hold the mattress in-I think the corners and crevices inside there would be great hiding places.
CHSatworks-are you sure the bugs at your place aren’t weevils? They are really hard to smoosh, and dark brown or black, and come out of flour, crackers, cereal, dog biscuits, and seem to be everywhere at once.
Oh man ew ew ew ew!!!
I HATE SPIDERS :dead: I killed four in my bathroom last week while sweeping. Last night one ran out from under my towel on the shower curtain and started to run across the curtain towards DH’s towel. I swatted it into the hot water. Hot water = instant death. This morning I was vigorously shaking the towels.
I keep getting bites on my forearms. >:( I suspect spiders as well. The bad thing for me is that I get more and more allergic to wasp and spider (and who knows what else) as I get older. Today, I have a 6"x3" swollen place on my left forearm. I’m about ready to bomb my bedroom! This has happened multiple times this spring.
Recluse spiders bite bad and have sent my dad to the hospital for antibiotics and steroids. They are nasty little buggers that like to hide. But maybe you are getting them out in the barn and you don’t know it? Either that or a black widow. Can’t think of any other spider that would welt you up that bad.
http://www.dnr.state.md.us/wildlife/Habitat/WildAcres/waspiders.asp#cobweb
Our black widows in MI are a little different then yours. I don’t think ours are quite as venomous.
I know that my bites aren’t black widows or recluses. Unfortunately, I’ve been bitten by a brown recluse before. The itchy, swollen places I’m getting from my latest bites are similar to my most recent wasp stings - very different from my recluse bite.
My paternal grandmother was very reactive to spider bites, whether they were considered non-venomous or not. I think I take after her.
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