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

[slugjelly]

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)

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

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

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!

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.

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

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.

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.

Also, can anyone recognise the bites?

Where are the bites? Fleas tend to be round your ankles.

They were on my inside knee and now on my daughters torso

I uploaded a pic but I don’t think it worked.

Is your cat on a vet treatment ? And if it’s the back of the neck job they have largely stopped working apparently. We have had to go on a tablet instead think it’s credelio. Paying for a plan which wasn’t working.

Fleas can lie dormant in carpets for years and wake up to feast when cats/dogs/people move in. I’d go to the vets and buy a big can of indorex or similar. Blitz the house and sleep elsewhere for the night if you can!

Bed bugs?

Harvest mites
(chiggers) ?

Are the bites in clusters or ones on their own. Try posting a picture again

Need a picture!

Bat bugs, my next door neighbours had them. They had bats in the eaves and now the bats are gone the bat bugs have no food. The feed on human blood but don't last long on human blood. They look similar to a bed bug apparently.

Me and my daughter are the same, turns out half my street are getting bitten too by mosquitoes!! We have fields and water right behind us and it's constant!! They are so so itchy 😭

If you can move out for a couple of days an ozone machine will get rid of whatever it is. Just make sure you stay out of the house as it is hugely toxic to all living organisms before it dissipates.

I think this is happening to me! I didn’t realise they were vampire flies!

Diatomaceous earth - sprinkle it in cracks, round skirting boards etc
Shreds all bug exoskeleton
Have you had the heating on as flea eggs can lay dormant & wake up when warm enough. This happened to me in a rental after I moved in

These

Indorex everywhere too and go out for a few hours after
Diatomaceous earth is harmless to us just don't breathe loads in like don't shake it and make a cloud form

Do they hurt or just itch?