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Probably the same species

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Different species.
Help. Anyone know anything about mites?

Where did you find them?

>>2973500
On a wool blanket

>>2973501
Looks like flour mites aka grain mites.

>>2973499
That's a buttfer

>>2973503
What's a buttfer?

>>2973504
Poopin', silly

>>2973505
What's a poopin'?

I'm afraid to put my ramen under a microscope bros I've heard about the bugs but I'm poor

>>2973497
If it has 8 legs it is not an insect, probably a mite.

>>2973501
In the bedroom?
You can kill mites by freezing the blankets, mattresses, pillows etc.

>>2973497
looks like bugs

>>2973549
extra protein

>>2973568
Yes, they are mites. I was hoping someone could tell me which species they are.
In the bedroom? Yes, in the bedroom.
Freezing the blankets does kill them, quite effectively actually.
Just can't see how you'd freeze a mattress. You must have a walk in freezer.

Chinamen

>>2973497
are you using a pocket microscope

>>2973652
>ust can't see how you'd freeze a mattress. You must have a walk in freezer.
Top tier part of the world have freezing temp outside right now.

>>2973752
Nope. I'm using a normal microscope with two eye pieces. Magnification was 100x

>>2973757
>Top tier part of the world
Ok Fritz

>>2973497
ask >>>/sci/

>>2973652
>Just can't see how you'd freeze a mattress.
Build an enclosure and purchase 100 lbs. of dry ice. If you *really* wanted to kill the things you could spread diatomaceous earth over all of it, but you need to wear a mask and that's a huge mess. Honestly, you're better off just buying a new mattress. What are they, like a few hundred bucks?

>>2974307
>What are they, like a few hundred bucks
Yes, around that. Anyway I hoovered my mattress and will assume the thing is mostly clean. So no buying new mattress right now.
Besides, I'm a poorfag

>>2973497
Why do you ask? Are you getting bug bites at night? I’m gonna break you heart and tell you that it’s bed bugs. These little mites exist on practically everything already and don’t cause bug bites. Not really.

I realize I’m doin an awful lot of assuming here, but if it is bed bugs, an exterminator won’t do shit until you find one of them and put them in a plastic bag. When that unfortunate day comes, tell them you want Aprehend treatment. It’s a fungus that eradicates them by latching onto their bodies and having them bring the disease back to their nesting areas. It is devastatingly effective, and I wouldn’t recommend any other treatment on planet earth. It does take a couple more weeks to fully kill then all, but once they’re gone, they’re gone for good.

>>2974408
>Are you getting bug bites at night?
Not during the night. I'm getting them mostly during the day.
I don't go for the bed bugs theory. I think I would have seen them by now. This shit has been happening for more than six months now

>>2974408
>get 4 big bowls
>get a few bags of diatomaceous earth
>scoot your bed away ftom the wall
>put the posts in the bowls and fill the bowls with diatom earth
>keep anything on your bed from touching the floor or walls, or anything else, ever; as in the only way up to the bed is through the diatom earth in the bowls
You will see dead bed bugs in/around the bowls if they are there. It is very possible there is a delayed reaction from the bites and that's why you notice them during the day.

>>2973652
>Just can't see how you'd freeze a mattress. You must have a walk in freezer.
It is more like an walk out freezer. Normal winter is -25 C where I live. Everything is covered by a blanket of snow.

>>2974307
>Build an enclosure and purchase 100 lbs. of dry ice.
Freezing to -88C is effective, just make sure the CO2 gas doesn't asphyxiate you. Do not move the mattress while cold, or there will be damages.

>>2974618
Bed bug bites often don’t show up until midday the next day, or even two days later.. It’s super fucking frustrating, I know. Got them last year and it was the worst experience of my life. I only had two that I ever saw, and those two still ruined my fucking life

>>2974693
>Normal winter is -25 C where I live
Right now, we have 10 C and 80%~90% RH.
That's outside. Inside it's 18 C and 75% RH.

>>2974797
Could you see them with the naked eye?
How did you get rid of them? With that aprehend stuff? Did it work?

Just found a new type of mite I hadn't seen before. This one I found it around some boards I have in the garage

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>>2974816
And now the pic

>>2974816
I only ever found one alive, and yes you can see them with the naked eye. I was lucky enough to have found it crawling up the side of my bed one morning when it was coming up for breakfast. I bagged it immediately and squashed it. Sent the picture to an exterminator that had a good reputation in my city. If you’re in Chicago by chance I can’t recommend etotech pest control enough.

But yeah they likely won’t do shit until you find an actual bug. Either that or if you have a bad enough infestation that they can find evidence of their existence. But usually if you’re that deep in the woods, you’d fucking know it.

And yes, find someone that uses Aprehend. Do not use over the counter bullshit, it doesn’t work. Don’t use a national corporation for your exterminator needs either. Fuck Orkin and all of them. They will use some bullshit chemicals that don’t work. It has to be Aprehend.

They are impossible to find when there are just one or two straggles that are torturing you. I flipped everything in my place. I live in a studio so there just wasn’t that many places they could possibly be, and despite tearing apart my mattress and bottom of my couch, I never ever found where they were hiding. Just got lucky, like I said. And found one dead after the Aprehend treatment, like a month later or whatever.

The thing that sucks about Aprehend, is also the reason it works. The exterminator sprays a boundary around your bed or wherever else you hang out in the general vicinity. The bugs then have to crawl over this barrier, to use YOU as bait. This is when the fungus spores attaches to the bug’s body and then slowly kills them over the course of a few days.

If your situation is like mine, they should be dead in another month or two. Sometimes people need a second treatment if the bed bugs mated and the new nymphs haven’t been “infected” yet.

>>2974819
I hope for your sake you don’t have bed bugs, but theyre impossible to find and book lice and dust mites don’t leave bites. Maybe if you’re allergic to them you’d get some kind of hives, but you would have known that your whole life already. Because like I said, those practically microscopic bugs exist in every house on so many surfaces already. You don’t just start getting bit by then randomly one day and then non stop after the fact.

Im so sorry if it ends up being the bed bugs, really I am. It’s been a year and I’m still fucked up mentally because of them

>>2973497
it's clearly a ligma