r/bugbites

Are these bed bug bites

I’ve been getting these types of bug bites seemingly overnight. I have checked my bed multiple times for bed bugs and fleas, nothing. My dog is on flea medication, I comb him regularly, and spray around for fleas - no fleas. I wash my bedding weekly and vacuum weekly. I also see no signs of spider webs or any type of bug. I also never see bites on my dog.

The bites are small, clustered, raised, and itchy. They seem to only bite around my knee/knee pit. But occasionally on my wrist or ankle.

I’m at a loss. Any idea what type of bug this could be?

Staying at Riu bavaro punta Cana and woke up with these bites! Are these bed bugs bites,?

[removed]

Worked last night, went to bed and could feel my arm was itchy before getting comfy in bed. Bedsheets are clean and have never seen a bedbug. Only seeing them on my arm and stomach as pictured. They are pretty itchy! We have lots of ants/drain flies at work right now and mosquitos are also prominent where I live.

I woke up this morning to all these bites. There’s lots of small spot types on the front of my legs, but some quite big ones on the back of my legs ankles. Really worried it might be bed bugs although there are no other signs of bed bugs. Any ideas?

They don’t really itch or hurt. They are only on legs/ankles. I’m in the UK if that makes any difference!

Hi everyone I was just wondering what this might be and if I should go to er tomorrow? It’s on my inner thigh it’s warm to the touch also itches alot. Kinda hurts when I press on it. I don’t know if it’s a spider bite or a tick bite? anything helps thank you so much!!

Hi everyone, going a bit crazy here.
I got these red bumps only on my abdomen area 3 weeks ago. I had no idea they were there as they didn’t itch at all until I went to shower. I monitored for a few days, seemed to sizzle down but one or two kept reappearing. Then a week later, another flare up with a lot of red bumps in the similar stomach area, no t itchy. My husband and I thought it was bed bugs so we went crazy, made traps, cleaned everything etc. odd thing was was that my husband wasn’t getting “bit” at all. Also, these so called bed bugs weren’t attacking any exposed skin, just my stomach area. Sometimes I’d have a “bites” one or two on my back.
I went to the doctor today and he said if I cleaned out my home, there’s no itch and my husband isn’t getting bit, this is likely a skin problem than bites.
I asked if he has seen reactions happen like this, and he said he did.
I don’t know why but I’m still skeptical and paranoid. I’m wondering if anyone has had something similar happen to them like this and found out what it is? Or if it’s BB, does it look like this?

Thank you sososo much. Please help a fellow redditer out.

Had these bites for a few days but I don’t think these are mosquito bites anymore.

Useful info:
- Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
- have a dog
- bites around ankles
- was outside when I first noticed itching

If there’s anymore information I can offer then lmk and I’ll try my best to answer

every morning i notice different bites from before. do i have lice? ive been checking my hair and haven't seen anything but im so confused. it started about a week ago. they're itchy and i notice them mainly in the morning. what kind of bites are these😭

I moved a new place yesterday. This morning I had 3 bites. Are these bedbugs? I inspected the bed but i couldnt find anything. Please help.

I know this is a super common fear for a lot of people, it’s definitely one for me but it feels very real right now. A week and a half ago, I noticed two tiny red marks on my baby’s ankle. They’re about 3mm apart. To me, I immediately thought “this looks like a bat bite” I really don’t know what else it could even be. We haven’t seen a bat in the house and we haven’t gone outside with her at night. But a huge part of me is genuinely convinced a bat flew into her room at night through the air vent and then flew back out. I’m actually so scared, I don’t know how to function.

Found a bed bug biting me a few nights ago days after doing a walkthrough of a new Airbnb I agreed to clean (wont be returning for obvious reasons).
Should I seek medical attention? The bites appeared as welts 4 days ago (which I popped) then became very sensitive and scabbed over. Today I woke up and they are itchier than ever (haven’t been itching them) and the redness is new.

Currently using cold compress and cortisone cream

This is a web picture but when I get mosquito bites they always look like this, apparently this isn't normal?? I got this picture when looking up Skeeters Syndrome but all the cases and stuff I see on reddit people have these humongous welts while mine never get larger than this So are my mosquito bites supposed to look like this or not?? I'm so confused 😭

It was in my clothes this morning! I put on my shirt, and I felt this burning feeling? I took it off, and I found two tiny long black bugs crawling around. Maybe a little longer than a grain of rice but no thicker. They might have been thrips, but the bites I found online don't look like this? They burned for at least an hour or two, and now they itch and burn but not as severely. What in the world did this?? I'm in Minnesota on vacation rn please help

Bee sting on my wrist on Monday and in jerking my hand back, I hit my wrist on my fence gate. I guess the sting started itching while I was asleep and I probably scratched all nite. And I had been stung on neck on Sunday. Golf ball size knot on neck but no bruising.

My mom’s house has bed bugs in all the bedrooms I go there to pick up packages and chit chat and I live in an apartment. Recently I started getting bites and suspect I got a hitchhiker hoping it’s just one hitchhiker but who knows might be more and this is my timeline:

Around July.24 or maybe few days later I got like 4 bites in close clusters on my right calf. I thought weird must’ve gotten bitten by mosquitos while I was out with friends last night but it was strange since mosquitos don’t really like me

Some time before August.2 maybe few days before that I got another cluster of 3 bites on my left lower arm and then a day later like 5 on my upper arm I THOGUHT there’s a mosquito living in my bedroom maybe so I blasted the fan in my bedroom. They were super itchy like to the point I start twitching and tweaking out

August.12 a week goes by no bites I thought my fan is working! And then at night I’m on my phone I feel my back itching I scratch it and feel another bite and think that’s weird did I just get bitten today and didn’t know??? And then it kept itching around that area I had this sense something was biting me in that moment even tho I’ve never once caught any bug in their mid meal on me and I flip the blanket and there’s this huge bed bug crawling and I kill it. It managed to bite me 4x while I was awake right before I killed it. I sleep on the couch but barely because I’m effing terrified

August.13 morning i call exterminator right away he’ll be here in few hours I strip my mattress I find 3 skin sheddings all sizes ranging smallest to biggest. I don’t find poop or anything else. I wash everything high heat dryer al that. He sprays chemical in my room. Says I shouldn’t get bitten that night n I can sleep in my room i don’t sleep in my room I sleep on couch for 3 nights cuz anxiety is high I know I shouldn’t have every night I’d wake up at 5am and go sleep in my room when I’m half asleep it’s easy to manage to sleep in my bed but when I’m awake I’m like high anxiety

August 15 Tonight is my first full night in my bed and I’m really scared but I know I have to lure these bugs out to walk on the chemical

How bad is my infestation? How long will it take to eradicate? I keep trying to tell myself it’s just one bed bug that hitch hiked on me and I killed it so hoping it’s all over but 3 sheds make it hard to believe . Also if any advice please share

All over my arms after a shower last morning, brutal itchiness making it hard to sleep. Yesterday it looked like the last photo, now it looks like first, much more bullseye-ish

Smaller than 2 cm. The balls are burning. ChatGpt failed to recognise this.