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aaargh - WTF keep biting us???!!!!

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geekgrrl · 23/04/2007 07:26

For the past 2.5 weeks we keep being bitten by something - the bites looks like mozzie bites but slightly smaller, and often appear in clusters of two or three.
On dh and me they're mainly around the ankles and calves with the occasional one just above the trouser waistband area, the children get bitten all over though
The bites are very very itchy and we seem to get between 1-4 a day each.
We are fine overnight, it would seem that we get bitten in our lounge/dining room/kitchen space.

I thought it was fleas at first and had actually found a half-dead flea on the floor in our d/s toilet, and whilst it did seem like an unlikely scenario (we have no pets and no carpet flooring and I do hoover quite frequently) I treated it as a flea infestation and sprayed the furniture & skirting boards etc thoroughly and repeatedly. The bites continued and I bought a flea trap, which hasn't caught anything. I've not seen anything else other than that lone flea, which I guess could have come in from outside - and I really have looked rather a lot.
I'm so fed up. Dd1 and I went away for the weekend and it was so pleasant to not get bitten for a change.
Any ideas what it could be?

OP posts:
fishie · 23/04/2007 08:32

do you have gaps between floorboards? they could be in there. if you are already spraying etc might as well get a pest control company in, horrible for children and you to be bitten all the time.

fishie · 23/04/2007 08:33

oh it probably is the sofa then, same as us. it only took two treatments

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