You could try sleeping on a coach in another room for a night, with no pets no hubby.
That eliminates bed, pets ( and husband :lol:)
If you STILL are bitten, then I’d look at them landing on you during the day and biting you when you remove clothes, bites showing up next day.
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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.[/QUOTE]
OMG your bites look like the 10-15 welts I have on my side and forearm. I too have been dumbfounded as to what’s biting me. I seem to get the bites in waves- they are intensley itchy. I don’t recall anything biting me- and I 'm always covered in flyspray (not by choice) so I assumed that the bites must be occuring at night.
I will be scouring the bedroom this afternoon…
Hahaaa, I just came here to post WHAT THE HELL IS BITING ME???
I was away for 10 days. When I got home, naturally, first stop was 2 hours playing in my barn with my OTTB and 2 rescue ponies. While I was in there, I realized I was getting bites on the backs of my knees. Huh. Funny, not flies, I barely wondered about who was biting me, kept playing, not thinking about bug bites. When I got up to the house and started unpacking, I realized holy cow, I have a lot of bites. 78 to be exact. Elbow crooks, knee crooks, chest (yes, boobs), back, belly, thighs, neck, ear lobe, eye corner. They are big bites, very pink, the size of a quarter. SUPER itchy. Then after a day, they open a teeny tiny hole in the center and weep. Similar to a tick bite only squishier, if you will…Oh! So itchy, I’m all squirmy. So I was thinking I must have walked into a web of tiny baby spiders. Turns out, my horse and the people who took care of my barn while I was away are all also covered in the same bites! WTH??? Not the dogs, not the house, not the cats…Barn Swallows? We have had MANY dead fledglings this year (15 in 1 day)…are they itching to death or carrying some kind of biting parasite that’s sucking them dry, killing them and then biting us?? Eeew.
Okay yall are really creeping me out. All the bite stuff is like reading Chocomare’s onchocerca thread!
There has been a huge resurgence of bed bugs in the past few years. It’s more common to find them in cities, but totally possible for them to be in more rural or suburban areas.
A few years ago when I was living in Montreal, I had bedbugs in my apartment. Similar bites: round, in clusters of 2-3, and the itchiest things I’ve ever experienced. Before figuring out what was going on and getting them exterminated, I went through a round of prednisone and several steroid creams. Phone around exterminators and find someone who’s dealt witht them before; they’ll know where and how to find them.
As for the bugs themselves, they’re very flat, sort of fat-oval in shape, and a red colour. They look sort of like lentils or some other kind of little seed or legume.
Good luck!
Thanks Kashmere but the exterminator has already been and gone. He found spiders but no bed bugs. He did set some bed bugs traps just in case though.
Just checked, there is nothing in the traps yet.
Well that’ll teach me to respond without reading through first :lol:
I hope the culprit is found quickly! Being itchy is the awful, and thinking of mystery bugs isn’t so great either :eek:
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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.[/QUOTE]
These are not hard to smoosh. They don’t even make a crunch sound.
I’m officially itchy all over now! I HATE SPIDERS! There was a brown one in our bathtub & I woke my boyfriend up at 5 am to kill it…and there was another the next day…and I woke him up again! LOL!
That absolute worst itching I’ve ever had was when I got exposed to some sort of scabies mite. We bought some infested straw and all you had to do was handle it to bed stalls and you’d break out in spots all over. The itching was seriously intense…worse than nettle rash. It didn’t last long but it was horrible.
I saw a doctor and got misdiagnosed as poison ivy and later found out it was Scabies (mites).
Mosquitos? especially tiger mosquitos
Oh man, im having a similar problem, and i live alllll the way across the country from you (southern california). For me, its more like i am getting a bunch of bugbites that make the rest of my skin break out into a rash. Then most of the bites will go away, but the rask keeps coming back! I have one on the left side of my face that made my whole cheek erupt into a pimple-like rash (its a rash, i swear) the bite on my cheek feels really, really REALLy hot to the touch…
CH-I guess they aren’t weevils then, and I’m glad because they are disgusting and hard to get rid of.
And for the spiders-don’t forget that just because the bites show up at home doesn’t mean that you aren’t getting bitten at the barn or somewhere else, and it just takes a while to show up.
This thread is well-timed… I get bites that look like Laurie’s. Happens periodically. I’ve suspected spiders over bedbugs in my case because it’s not a constant occurrence. Eeeww.
Curious to see if bedbugs end up in the trap or if spiders are the final verdict here…
So having scoured the room and flipped the mattress- I found… a few teeny tiny baby spiders- sucked them up with the vacuum and threw out the bag immediately. Did not find any other critters, i.e. fleas, ticks…
Using benadryl on the bites w some relief.
I have my fingers crossed hoping this was it…
Any results on your end Laurieracer?
One thing I always do with my regular spring or foam mattresses is always use a fitted vinyl or zipper cover. It keeps them cleaner, and if you spill something like lemonade while watching tv in bed you only have to clean the sheets, mattress pad, and top covers (yes, I know but it seemed like a great idea at the time). And it should prevent anything like dust mites from getting into the mattress top, and getting around you.
