To ask what this is?

[AlwaysSkint]

I've never seen one before!? Looks like some sort of mite.

Harvest mite. Very common.

Looks like a bed bug

Bed bug?

I'd say a bedbug too

It's fucking grim, that's what it is.

www.nhs.uk/conditions/bedbugs/#

It was in my little girls cot but we both have new mattresses and it's the only one I've found. No bites or anything.

@Cherrysoup if it is a harvest mite, I take it they are harmless?

Where did you find it?

I'd say bed bug. Be prepared for a costly cleanse if so.....

Bed bugs don't only live in mattresses, sorry.

They can live in the walls, skirtings and bed frames.

I say this from bitter experience obviously, and I never noticed bites.

Not saying that I wasn't bitten but I don't tend to react to bites anyway.

@FrankiesKnuckle on top of my little girls blanket in her cot 😭. I've checked over the mattresses and there doesn't appear to be anymore.. I hope not, I'm too poor 😭😭

How do I know if I've got them? It's the only bug I can find!

Check in the bed frame, and around the headboard in all the corners, any little nook or cranny really.

Is it dead or alive?

@Bloatedbetty it wasn't dead, it is now!

@FrankiesKnuckle I have but there is no obvious sign..

If you can’t find any others or evidence of them (bites)you may be lucky and could’ve picked it up from somewhere on your travels. I hope so for your sake

Looks like a flea. Have you got cats?

@Bloatedbetty me too, I'll keep an eye out. Will I have to get rid of my furniture? All her nursery furniture is lovely and new (not cheap either)!

I was researching bed bugs and getting rid of them and came across bat bugs.. could it be one of those?

@Singlenotsingle nope no pets or garden

Pull back the edge of the mattress. If it is a new mattress that is infected you need to report back to the shop

@Pieceofpurplesky mattress is clear

Have you been drying any washing or clothes on the line in the nice weather? If so could it be an outside bug and not bed bug as some are suggesting? We dried our sheets on the line on Thursday and they came in covered in critters! I was not impressed

If it’s the only one you can find it’s likely you just brought in one from outside.

It looks like a red spider mite, our hens get them occasionally.