Comments on: bite photos

By: nobugsonme

nobugsonme — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 03:57:33 +0000

Donna,
Other conditions such as scabies should be ruled out by a doctor.
If it is bed bugs, you cannot determine this from the appearance of bites. Other problems can look and feel similar.
It is also is not possible to diagnose based on your description of when and where the skin condition started.
If the doctor rules out medical conditions, I’d have a pest control operator search for bed bugs.

By: Donna Rose

Donna Rose — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 14:35:27 +0000

My son is a year and a half and woke up with a red spot on his face. At first it looked like he just slept on it wrong but the spot stayed throughout the day. The next day it had bumps and they where a little white topped. Now it is four days after I noticed the spot and have been putting triple-antibiotic cream on the spot and the redness around it is gone but the bumps look as if they what to form scabs and it seems to be iching. Do you think it is a case of bed bugs? This has happened before but not on the same bed or even in the same house, all the furniture is different. I would send pictures but my camera is broken.

By: nobugsonme

nobugsonme — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 17:46:01 +0000

Monica,
Did you look at the rest of these:
http://bedbugger.com/bed-bug-bites-photos/

We’d love to add more. The fact is, different peoples’ bed bug bites look different.

By: Monica Long

Monica Long — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 17:10:51 +0000

My bite doesnt look like that, but it is a round circle about the size of a dime. On my butt so will have to get someone else to take pic.

By: nobugsonme

nobugsonme — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 03:48:13 +0000

Aww James, I thought we _were_ part of the entomology commnunity!?!

By: James Buggles

James Buggles — Mon, 25 Jun 2007 20:07:27 +0000

As usual, this site has taken it upon itself to provide what the entomology community has not. Most university entomology sites contain very few photos at tiny resolutions, very few videos that run just a few seconds, and not much in the way of research notes and papers. They’re not taking advantage of the Web.

Though he doesn’t work at a university, Lou Sorkin is the exception though I wish he had let his video camera run longer since YouTube allows up to 10 minutes.