Bites you can't identify with no signs of bugs
People keep getting unexplained bites on their fingers, ears, and ankles while professional inspections repeatedly find no evidence of bed bugs or fleas. This leaves families unable to stop the bites or figure out what kind of pest is actually in the home.
What people tried
Every workaround mentioned in the threads below. We haven’t tested any of them — and nobody here is claiming they worked.
- 1Moving belongings into sealed bags and living out of them
- 2Having a landlord-provided professional pest treatment
- 3Setting insect monitors in suspected areas
- 4treating pets for fleas and using a flea comb
In their words
Unedited, grouped by where they were said, most upvoted first within each place, each linked to the thread it came from.
“been having bite issues for a month in our apartment. we though bedbug for a while but had multiple professional opinions say no to that theory.”source ↗
“we've tried everything but haven't ever found evidence or fully stopped the problem.”source ↗
“i've been getting bitten a bunch on my fingers and behind my ears again and then this morning my partner found this dude in a sandwhich this morning.”source ↗
“my daughter woke up with these bites for 3 nights in a row. Bites also on ankles. no sign of bed bugs, fleas, or anything else.”source ↗
Where this came up
People with this problem also raised
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- 113How do I identify if these bugs are bed bugs?
- 5Exterminators won't treat cluttered or unsanitary homes
- 60What are these tiny red beads in my house?