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AIBU to be going crazy trying to find what is biting us?

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slugjelly · 09/09/2026 21:06

Please help me work out what is biting us. I had a few but now it’s relentlessly going for my DD. Victorian house (with cracks for spiders etc but renovation and no one living here for years before that), first winter we’ve lived in it. One cat who is up to date on flea treatments. No recent weird sleepovers or holidays. It only started this past week or so. Could it be spiders? I have been round the house doing everything I can but still it comes. (Tonight new spider traps and sealant everywhere though)

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slugjelly · 09/09/2026 21:20

I wish I hadn’t heard about rat mites or bird mites. Ugh!! I’ve just been spraying insect killer into my chimneys like a mad woman.

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slugjelly · 09/09/2026 21:15

These are more painful than mozzie bites which we do get lots of in peak summer. They’re much itchier, and have a sort of water filled bubble — but then go after a few days. It’s not chicken pox.

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boxtop · 09/09/2026 21:14

It’s not winter! It’s late summer, really. There are still mozzies about

BabyCat2020z · 09/09/2026 21:12

Do you have indoors plants? I kept getting bitten the other year around this time and it was horrible little black fly things on indoor pot plants.

TronaldDump · 09/09/2026 21:08

You have my sympathy - this happens to me sometimes! Do you have a blocked up chimney? Once it was bird mites from old nests which had fallen down the chimney. Once we re-sealed the problem stopped!

WellThatsNotAGrowthMindset · 09/09/2026 21:08

Midges/Mozzies last hurrah
Rat mites, house mouse mites, bird mites
Scabies

Hoping it's the first one for you and they all die off soon/close your windows

Walkacrossthesand · 09/09/2026 21:08

Any pics of the bites, more info about where they appear on the body, etc?

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