My daughters and I are getting bitten in our beds. At first I thought bed bugs, but can't find evidence. I found the bug, on my hand, just now. And as I look at it it's biting me and it's stinging and then leaves a huge welt. I didn't take a picture of it, but it's tiny, like I could mistake it for a crumb. About the size of a grain of rice, long and thin, dark brown. The bites are super itchy and have a small black dot in the middle after a few days. I'm a single mom and I need to get rid of these things.
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If you are renting, tell the landlord.
If you own, take the bugs in a sealed plastic bag. Bring to a place that sells pesticides and have them identify the bug and sell you the appropriate pesticide.
Actually, unless they were in the home prior to moving there, they are not the landlords responsiblitlyy, at least not in my state. A tenant can bring them back from visiting someone else or a hotel. That does not make it up to the landlord to take care of.
Maybe you can use this as a reference:
On the top right (type your zip code) and see what insect & bugs may be in your area that you can match up.
Do you have pets? Sounds like either bedbugs or even tiny fleas. Is it only in the beds? Goggle using rubbing alcohol for bedbugs.
ok so it may be a bedbug because after they feed they become engorged and look more like a grain of rice than a flat medallion, which is what they look like when they've not fed
is it reddish brown? Does it have no wings and a striped pattern? When you look at your bed are there brown spots? or on the pillows?
if they are bedbugs you do need to do things ASAP - I would stay away from rubbing alcohol because it's a good way to catch your house on fire. I would also stay away from poison foggers because all they do is make the problem worse.
The best DIY is diatomaceous earth, and vacuuming, and if you have access to a vapour cleaning machine that heats up to 200 F vaporize all your bedding. Also put all your clothes in the dryer.
Heat and diatomaceous earth are the best way to beat these things and at times work better than an exterminator
even if it's not bedbugs, doing the same things (vacuuming, washing all clothes, using borax or diatomaceous earth, etc) is still a good way to kill them.
unfortunately mom from missouri is right it would be very hard to prove the landlord's responsibility unless you could contact other previous tenants and prove that the infestation was there beforehand, whatever it is.
Sounds like thrips to me. They're a plant pest, but they will bite humans by mistake and cause an itchy or painful welt. They like dark, humid crevices.
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