I have what looks like beg bug or flea bite all over my body and up leg an arms..I first thought it might bed bugs after about a week i went an got a bunch of different sprays and powder to kill bed bugs/ other insects..Its been 5 days and i still wake up in the middle of the night feeling like somethin very small is crawling on me but when i look (and I’ve checked everywhere!!) no sign of bed bugs or blood anywhere..What insect could it be that is too small to see?

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i’ve been under attack! by infinitesimal insects, which i guess are ticks or dust mites. I’m currently sleeping in the living room, not in my room, because i have suffered many bug bites there. whereabouts on where it came from is still unknown, but i don’t care, i just want to get rid of them. any helpful solutions? thanks in advance

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I will be staying in several different backpacker hostels but I am paranoid about bed bugs. I had one bit me on the forehead and the huge scar only went away after 3 years! Does anyone have tips on how to avoid them or any products I can use (for all nasty little insects if possible)?

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Please no answer that say God didn’t create insects or God is no real.

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Do the mattress covers that say they protect against dust mites protect against bed bugs also?

For those who do not know dust mites and bed bugs are different insects.
Thanks guys I will look into both of your suggestions.

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I was living in an apartment complex that had bed bugs and I was unaware of it. The infestation started in the apartment below us I was told. That apartment got sprayed for bugs and then they came up to my apartment. I was never told of the infestation or to keep an eye out for bugs, until it was too late. At first I thought I was allergic to the detergent i was using cause I thought I was breaking out in hives. I changed my bed sheets and detergent and the itchy didn’t stop.

A month goes by and I happen to be talking to some other tenants in my building and they told me they had bed bugs and were treated for them already. I started looking around and found that my mattress had blood stains on it and i started seeing the bugs. My mattress had to be thrown out and they eventually spread throughout the apartment. We had to get rid of our two couches as well as my queen size mattress.

We got the complex to spray our apartment and the surrounding ones and we had to bag up all our stuff and take it to get cleaned. I ended up spending at a laundromat plus the cost of the mattress and two couches we had to throw away. I slept on an air mattress and was still getting bit. They were supposed to spray 3 times but they only came twice and I was still finding the bugs; in my filing cabinet,dressers, walls, covers, etc.

We decided to break our lease because the problem was not being fixed, we also had roaches and a mice problem as well. Our apartment was not dirty and we cleaned a lot but the insects still came even after the treatments. They were in the walls and just moved from apartment to apartment. I spent 3 months with beg bug infestation, having to worry about having people over, going to others apartments, I didn’t want them to spread. I always washed my clothes and sheets just to be safe but nothing worked.

Eventually we moved to a different complex, we had to wash every piece of fabric and check all the furniture. So that is where I am now, a different apartment complex and I’ve found 4 bugs already. I have gotten bit a few times and I found one in my clarinet case the other day. I have no idea how they traveled with us but they did. I don’t know what to do because I don’t know who is responsible. Are we going to get blamed for bringing them in, or is the old complex responsible for not getting rid of the problem. I don’t want them to spread to other tenants apartments but I’m not sure if I should tell my new apartment complex or get a private exterminator. Any suggestions or stories would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks everyone. If I get a private exterminator how much would it cost? Also, would it be reasonable to ask the old complex to pay for it? Or at least the money we lost?

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I am deathly afraid of ANY kind of bug. I spray for insects around my house, I constantly clean so I will be free of roaches….but now I read a question about what bed bugs look like and now I am freaked. I change and wash all the sheets on the beds every week. Should I be good not to get them, or should I wash my sheets adn blankets more often than once a week?
I didn’t know they were do tiny. I thought they were flea sized.

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I recently found some insects in my bathroom they’re black in color. Very, very tiny a little bigger that the head of a pin. They are very slow moving and head or antenea looks like it’s in a Y shape. I tried throwing some water on a few of them to drown them since they are so small and I thought that killed them two minutes later a few were crawling back up the wall and one looked like it came out of the sink. I’ve looked everywhere online and can’t find out what they are I thought they were a micro-beetle, tick, or bed bug and they don’t look like any of them. Please help I want to find what they are if they are harmful and how to get rid of them. I haven’t tried bug spray yet but I’m about to.

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Most of the vegans that post on make claims that they are vegans because they can’t stand to see harm coming to any animals.
1. Do you ever wash your bedding because when you do you are murdering thousands of bed bugs.
2. Do you ever walk across grass because you are probably killing many bugs and worms
3. If you caught head lice would you use medicated shampoo to get rid of them.
In theory your philosophy is great but how do you differentiate between what "aminals" you can kill and what animals you don’t. Do you consider insects animals? If not you are just being hypocritical and drawing the line where it suits you. So if someone else draws the line at lets say mammals only and still eat fish and fowl who are you to comdemn. If they draw the line at humans and still eat beef its just a question of where the line is drawn.
response to smtrautman since he wont allow emails. Since when did insects become micro-organisms? And using "poison on your head to rid yourself of lice is not accidental is mass genocide. I don’t consider myself high and mighty, it is the vegans that try to lecture to me about my choices that feel they are superior. I agree that the conditions that many animals are raised in and the way they are tortured and killed is appalling. Lobby all you want for the more humane treatment of animals, I’m 100% for it but don’t lecture me about my choices. There is a verse from a famous book, think it may be the bible "let he who is without sin cast the first stone."

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Several years ago I lived in an apartment in Chicago. I used to find these insects in my apartment. Often I would wake up with rows or small itchy red bites on my legs and arms so I assumed they were bed bugs. I subsequently moved and never saw another for several years. Last month I moved to NY. I was surprised this morning to find one of the same bugs in my apartment. I am wondering what it is. It resembles a very small spider, is reddish brown, hard shelled, has roundish shape with a pronounced lower section, a very small head and walks slowly and in a sort of mechanical way. It doesn’t look like any of the pictures I see of bed bugs. It looks more like a tick and isn’t black or jump like a flea. I don’t have pets and live on the 6th floor of a building. I found this one in my tub. I am no idea how it got there. In Chicago I used to find them, rarely alive, in my bedroom or dining room mostly. I lived in a timber loft and they seemed to hide or live in the wooden beams.

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I discovered bed bugs in our new home about a month ago, I went online and followed plenty of advice; how ever spraying 6 matresses with alcohol, vacumming everything and washing all bedding I am still finding a couple insects every few days.
I have 5 children and take pride in keeping their rooms in perfect condition. We don’t alow clutter in our house so why have we been infested by these horrible insects? What is safe to use around children and their matresses that will kill these bugs permanently?

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I keep finding little beatle like bugs in my bed. I have looked at pictures of bed bugs these are not it. The bugs that I am finding are very small the size of a pin head, round, and gray with darker spots/stipes on there back. Please help me figure out what these are so I can get ride of them or help prevent them.
I keep finding little beatle like bugs in my bed. I have looked at pictures of bed bugs these are not it. The bugs that I am finding are very small the size of a pin head, round, and gray with darker spots/stipes on there back. Please help me figure out what these are so I can get ride of them or help prevent them.

**update thank you for comments, but like I mentioned ealier they are not bed bugs (I have been looking at pictures of bed bugs and insects like them, these dont resemble bed bugs). I have been consently washing my sheets, but with no luck with stopping them from appearing on my bed. they must be coming from somewhere else but seem to like fabric (I always find them on my sheets).

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Ok so last monday morning(june 11th) I woke up with a large number of insect bites on my arms and legs, and in turn had a pretty good amount of swelling due to allergies to whatever caused it. Because of this I proceeded to move my bed to the other side of the room, fully cleaned all sheets and pillows(but did not change the mattress)

Over the last week I have not received any new bites, and have only witnessed two separate insects in my room. One a rounded bug on my arm with tiny wings that i quickly killed and inspected, and didnt seem to resemble a bedbug from pictures online. The other insect was thinner and longer, and had no wings, and looked rather wide towards the mouth, as if it had more developed jaws or something, this was also killed promptly.

Anyone have an explanation as to why i woke up with so many bites in one night, and have witnessed almost no activity over the course of a week?

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I have bed bugs. I get multiple bites on my hands almost every night.

I have enclosed the boxspring with a latex cover, but the bites continue. I've sprayed with Home Depot insecticide, which says on the bottle that it kills bedbugs. I've sprayed every inch of my bedroom with this junk, multiple MULTIPLE times, including spraying the mattress. I've also done the routine of washing all bedding in hot water (I do it just about weekly).

I've spent so much money on this, it's ridiculous, from replacing pillows to paying exterminators to buying mattress enclosures. Do I really have to just accept that insects dine on my blood nightly and smear it on my sheets as they depart? Do I have to move and trash all furniture and belongings? Should I go to bed in a beekeeper's suit? What's a guy to do?

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