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   Anopheles
   

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   Posted 1 year ago
   Wed Nov 16 2011 12:30:30
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   Last 2 weeks I started to find some bites on my skin. They are small, about a half of average mosquito bite and dissapears VERY quickly. Maybe hour or two and they are gone. They itch only a little. I'm finding about one every day(just single bite, no pattern).

   Important to mention that before 2 months I found flea in my bed. It was shortly after I came home after trip to one meadow near town. So I thought maybe I bring it back from there. I have only cat, but it's home-cat living with me in a flat, so it couldn't bring any fleas home. I killed flea, inspected my matress and cat, then put flea traps in appartment, but didn't find anything. For about month, nothing happend. But now those bites started to show off. I again tried to set flea traps at night to every room,but find nothing. Nothing was found on my cats shelters too or cat itself. And believe me, since time I saw that flea I'm in Sherlock Holmes mode and inspect every little black thing I see anywhere.

   So I started to be suspicious about bed bugs as they hide like little invisible ninjas. I inspected mymattress, couch, space under carpet and sockets near to my bed. Nothing. Just quite lot of carpet beetle bugs and their skins.

   After second inspection of mattress I found one skin that is suspicious. It's only belly, about 2mm long. This is photo from microscope(40x).
   http://uploading.sk/images/imag0005.jpg
   This is size compared to 2cent coin and ruler with MILIMETERS scale.
   http://uploading.sk/images/imag0018.jpg

   Important to say I live in Slovakia, Centre Europe. We have bed bugs, although it's not very common here. I personally dont know a person who had them.

   Thank you a lot for helping me identify this skin.

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   Posted 1 year ago
   Wed Nov 16 2011 13:12:03
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   Here is a skin.

   http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v186/spideyjg/BBs/1106011907573232917.jpg

   You have a remnant from a dead insect. Can't rule BBs out or in. Wait for our entomologist to look.

   Jim

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   bed-bugscouk
   

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   Posted 1 year ago
   Wed Nov 16 2011 13:43:41
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   Hi,

   I think its another ladybird artifact its not bedbugs however.

   David Cain
   Bed Bugs Limited

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