So many bites next to each other could be a bed bug. My understanding is that they'll leave little black dots around the bites as well.
Did you see any before?
Otherwise, any of mosquitoes, or fleas.
I had what i suspected were bed bug bites and a few times they would bite in a cluster somewhat similar to this. I moved out of that apartment and haven't noticed any bites since but never actually confirmed i had bed bugs.
It depends where they are, how well you cleaned, and what you got rid of, probably some luck too. In my case bites were not frequent at all. There are methods to kill them without chemicals by subjecting them to certain temperatures as well.
Yeah that'll work slowly and is better for making perimeters or when the infestation is mild. Once it's settled in you need heat treatment and everything that can't be heated needs frozen for two weeks or rinsed in alcohol. If you act sane about this they'll come back until you stop.
Bed bugs. The internet will tell you they only bite in a straight line, but that's horse shit. Look up bed bug bites and you'll see clusters like this, too.
This brought back Bedbug based paranoia I thought I had laid to rest nearly a decade ago so thanks for that.
I hope you have a speedy and painless solution to our problem, but I'm really glad I'm not you OP. My god, if I never see these bastards again it will be too soon.
fun fact if you have bats in your area, they also carry bat bugs, which are relative to bed bugs and they can also infest your house too. there is a theory that bed bugs evolved from bat bugs, also they look alike.
I've often wondered about what a person can legally do if bats have moved into their home. My initial crazy thought was to get some new "pets" that are bat predators. Who wouldn't want a house filled with racoons, snakes, and venomous spiders?
i mean they're a protected species here. any action you take that it can be proven was intentional to get rid of the bats could technically land you in hot water. if it weren't for the bat bugs that i just heard about i wouldn't mind so much because they eat mosquitos and i like anything that eats those fuckers. our neighbor has fake shutters on their backyard windows. bats moved in there. it was fun watching them take off every night. their solution? have some construction in their backyard and oops it needs a jackhammer for 3 godsdamned bullshit months with no fucking days off.
I had a coworker that had bats take up residence in his attic and he wasn't allow to remove them. That was all fine and well (not really because of the horrific noises) until they gnawed through the drywall and started pouring into his house. I can't get the image out of my head of him swinging a tennis racket at them as they flew around his living room. It was right out of an 80s comedy except he had to live with the results. In the end, he just moved because he couldn't do anything else. From that point forward, I decided that I would tell no one about bats if they wormed into my home and would make sure they wanted to leave.
Seriously, I've had it once before when I stayed at a place in New York almost 20 years back at this point.
I was like, oh ... why are these bumps and why are they in a row? so weird!
Although, worse was when I got a bed in London UK at Swiss Cottage to just stay one night. It was like a dorm room bed. I think I estimated that I got like 200 bed bug bites in total. I had to estimate but it was crazy. What's funny is that when you're entire body is covered in bites, the itchiness bothers you a bit less because if it's just one area you keep scratching it. However when it's your whole body, you're like ... everywhere equally hurts so I don't need to bother scratching. At least that's what it was like for me.
Sorry, just releasing out the trauma :P
Now whenever I get any bites ... I just freak out and wonder if it's bed bugs. I woke up last night and noticed an itchy bump and just freaked myself out.
Right there with you. I had to fully encapsulate my mattress (which was a brand new memory foam), spray poison all over everything, then heat treat the entire room until my blinds melted.....TWICE!
My wife still freaks out if she sees a spot of dirt on the sheets, and that all happened 7 years ago.
My situation was a dorm room situation I couldn't get out for a WHOLE FUCKING YEAR. The caretaker didn't give a shit, all my dorm mates slept with a lighter close by, lighter fluid was traded around like cigarettes and blowies in a jail yard.
We got our revenge on the asshole caretaker though, the bugs managed to infest that guys room too. Unlike us he couldn't just get up and leave at the end of the year. Fuck that guy.
If I have to travel, I keep my luggage out the door and check the entire fucking room like I'm Brezhnev's Soviet security detail in the 1973 Washington summit visit. No stone unturned, no corner or edge left unchecked.
It's been 10 years since my bedbug nightmare. The bugs are long gone, but I'm still inspecting the mattress and box spring cover weekly with a magnifying glass, and blasting my laundry with hot water, high heat in the dryer, and sprinkling diatomaceous earth all the fuck over.
Bedbugs as someone else said. If this was at home clean the fuck out your house. Like, deep clean. Twice. Check the seams on your mattress and pillows. If you have a clothes dryer throw in everything that is safe to put in a dryer. Leave it in there for at least an hour. You can't imagine the psychological terror of having a potential infestation. You need to fight back hard.
Bedbugs. If you can, get your house above 120° F and keep it there for at least two hours. If not, CONSTANT VIGILANCE, and constant deep cleaning of everything is the only way I have seen them beaten without poisons.
Warning: this will destroy medication if it's left out. You may want to move your pills to the refrigerator first (after first checking the temperature - see article).
Actually, if you live in a hot climate and don't use A/C, you should probably do that anyway.
My vote is bed bug. I’ve had a few encounters while traveling. It’s happened to me in a C shape before, once. Although not as tight of a C shape as yours.
Idk why this is getting down voted. Spiders usually bite in a line, not that weird it's a c shape. Impossible to tell without more info. But I'd bet spider.
I was thinking the same. I've been bit by a lot of things but never recall being bit by a spider (at least while conscious). Maybe 1 or 2 bites I'd believe but 5 would be incredibly unlikely.
I've had a lot of exposure to spiders for the last 20 years, including keeping my own since I was 16. I've never been bitten and my brother (who did more of the handling than me), was only bitten twice. And we kept plenty of the more "aggressive" spiders that are much more likely to bite than your average spider.
And a single spider biting more than at most 2 times is pretty much unheard of. 5 bites is a very strong indicator it was a blood seeking insect.
One of the only completely honest people! Even doctors and entomologists rarely are confident enough to diagnose the specific cause just from images of a bite...
I touched poision ivy once and it looked like this. If it doesn't go away like a normal mosquito bite, might need to get it checked out so you can get the prescription cream.
I can't really tell scale there but several bites in a row like that might indicate bed bugs, check the corner of your mattress, and any clothes near where you sleep
If you've had chicken pox before and have had mysterious pain/tingling on an arm/leg on the same side of the body as those for the past few days it could be shingles
I just had it at 33 last week and it looked very similar to that when it first popped up
Looks like your Windows 11 update is almost complete. Or it could be fleas, bed bugs, or lice. I'm not a bugologist.
bed bugs tend to bite like that where it's all grouped up together and I think sometimes in a line.
Looks like someone poked you with an AT keyboard connector hot enough to burn you
No, those pins are positioned as if a "full circle" would be 8 pins. The bumps in OP's pic are more like if a "full circle" were 6 points.
I'm just makin old man jokes over here. Save your pedantry for something that matters 😉
I like to reading pedantic corrections of jokes, it's like the cherry on top
Ah so when you do it it's just a joke but when I do it it's pedantry, got it
Aww, don't be that way. Tongue was firmly in my cheek the entire time, cross my heart. I was worried when I started seeing your downvotes, honestly.
When anybody does it it's pedantic every time. It's weird that it happens at least once every major thread.
I've been summoned
Me: [drops summoning stick] Huh, I can't believe that worked...
Someone in the distance: Erm, that's ackshually not a summoning stick ☝🤓
Whooooosh
Idk, but one more and the circle closes, the ritual is complete.
"YA-HAHA! You found me!"
🎶 reward noises 🎶
drops rock on head
So many bites next to each other could be a bed bug. My understanding is that they'll leave little black dots around the bites as well. Did you see any before? Otherwise, any of mosquitoes, or fleas.
Bed bugs are usually in a straight line (they follow your veins). Could this be something other than an insect bite?
I had what i suspected were bed bug bites and a few times they would bite in a cluster somewhat similar to this. I moved out of that apartment and haven't noticed any bites since but never actually confirmed i had bed bugs.
As I understand it you don’t move away from bed bugs. They come with you.
It depends where they are, how well you cleaned, and what you got rid of, probably some luck too. In my case bites were not frequent at all. There are methods to kill them without chemicals by subjecting them to certain temperatures as well.
You can also just sprinkle diatomaceous earth around. That shit kills ‘em dead by piercing their exoskeleton and dehydrating them.
Yeah that'll work slowly and is better for making perimeters or when the infestation is mild. Once it's settled in you need heat treatment and everything that can't be heated needs frozen for two weeks or rinsed in alcohol. If you act sane about this they'll come back until you stop.
diatomeceous earth kills them too, also someone used alot of rubbing alcohol on thier bedding.
they bite in 3s as well.
The Five Fanged Flying Purple Pimple Monster, Obviously...
Real talk, check your shit for bed bugs. THEY WILL RUIN YOUR LIFE IF NOT DEALT WITH.
I am sorry but you have MIDI
Thank goodness, there are 2⁷ ways to cure that.
Bed bugs. The internet will tell you they only bite in a straight line, but that's horse shit. Look up bed bug bites and you'll see clusters like this, too.
What about one mosquito with six guns?
There was a fire fight!!!
There was a fire bite!!!
made my day!
Am I the only one who remembers Santo Bugito?
whatever it was, it was going for the hexagon, which are the bestagones
Just chiming in to agree that you're gonna need to burn your house down
No need to burn it. Just bake it for a few days. They can't handle the heat.
Just one of the perks to living in the monument to man's arrogance.
Bed bugs for sure. Took 2 years to get rid of the bastards as they ate us alive.
Don't worry, they aren't bites. Just spider eggs.
The PlayStation 2 menu spinning orbs
This brought back Bedbug based paranoia I thought I had laid to rest nearly a decade ago so thanks for that.
I hope you have a speedy and painless solution to our problem, but I'm really glad I'm not you OP. My god, if I never see these bastards again it will be too soon.
fun fact if you have bats in your area, they also carry bat bugs, which are relative to bed bugs and they can also infest your house too. there is a theory that bed bugs evolved from bat bugs, also they look alike.
This is the opposite of a fun fact. I'm going to sneak into your house and steal your fingers for typing it
Wait till you learn that bats are one of the the most populous genus of animal on the planet, they even live in Antarctica
https://worldostats.com/global-stats/bat-population-by-species/
I'm not sure what's more alarming here: the bat bugs or the people willing to steal fingers out of spite.
Wait what. It's illegal here to move bats once they've picked a home. How do you prevent bat bug infestation
By shooting them without moving, ideally before they pick your house.
I've often wondered about what a person can legally do if bats have moved into their home. My initial crazy thought was to get some new "pets" that are bat predators. Who wouldn't want a house filled with racoons, snakes, and venomous spiders?
i mean they're a protected species here. any action you take that it can be proven was intentional to get rid of the bats could technically land you in hot water. if it weren't for the bat bugs that i just heard about i wouldn't mind so much because they eat mosquitos and i like anything that eats those fuckers. our neighbor has fake shutters on their backyard windows. bats moved in there. it was fun watching them take off every night. their solution? have some construction in their backyard and oops it needs a jackhammer for 3 godsdamned bullshit months with no fucking days off.
I had a coworker that had bats take up residence in his attic and he wasn't allow to remove them. That was all fine and well (not really because of the horrific noises) until they gnawed through the drywall and started pouring into his house. I can't get the image out of my head of him swinging a tennis racket at them as they flew around his living room. It was right out of an 80s comedy except he had to live with the results. In the end, he just moved because he couldn't do anything else. From that point forward, I decided that I would tell no one about bats if they wormed into my home and would make sure they wanted to leave.
Can’t have bedbugs if you don’t have a bed. knock on the head
I WISH those little fuckers worked like that. Bed bug PTSD is real.
Seriously, I've had it once before when I stayed at a place in New York almost 20 years back at this point.
I was like, oh ... why are these bumps and why are they in a row? so weird!
Although, worse was when I got a bed in London UK at Swiss Cottage to just stay one night. It was like a dorm room bed. I think I estimated that I got like 200 bed bug bites in total. I had to estimate but it was crazy. What's funny is that when you're entire body is covered in bites, the itchiness bothers you a bit less because if it's just one area you keep scratching it. However when it's your whole body, you're like ... everywhere equally hurts so I don't need to bother scratching. At least that's what it was like for me.
Sorry, just releasing out the trauma :P
Now whenever I get any bites ... I just freak out and wonder if it's bed bugs. I woke up last night and noticed an itchy bump and just freaked myself out.
Right there with you. I had to fully encapsulate my mattress (which was a brand new memory foam), spray poison all over everything, then heat treat the entire room until my blinds melted.....TWICE!
My wife still freaks out if she sees a spot of dirt on the sheets, and that all happened 7 years ago.
You never quite get over a bed bug infestation.
My situation was a dorm room situation I couldn't get out for a WHOLE FUCKING YEAR. The caretaker didn't give a shit, all my dorm mates slept with a lighter close by, lighter fluid was traded around like cigarettes and blowies in a jail yard.
We got our revenge on the asshole caretaker though, the bugs managed to infest that guys room too. Unlike us he couldn't just get up and leave at the end of the year. Fuck that guy.
If I have to travel, I keep my luggage out the door and check the entire fucking room like I'm Brezhnev's Soviet security detail in the 1973 Washington summit visit. No stone unturned, no corner or edge left unchecked.
Fuck Bedbugs.
It's been 10 years since my bedbug nightmare. The bugs are long gone, but I'm still inspecting the mattress and box spring cover weekly with a magnifying glass, and blasting my laundry with hot water, high heat in the dryer, and sprinkling diatomaceous earth all the fuck over.
I think windows 10 bit you, and the actual bite is loading
Bedbugs as someone else said. If this was at home clean the fuck out your house. Like, deep clean. Twice. Check the seams on your mattress and pillows. If you have a clothes dryer throw in everything that is safe to put in a dryer. Leave it in there for at least an hour. You can't imagine the psychological terror of having a potential infestation. You need to fight back hard.
Bedbugs. If you can, get your house above 120° F and keep it there for at least two hours. If not, CONSTANT VIGILANCE, and constant deep cleaning of everything is the only way I have seen them beaten without poisons.
Warning: this will destroy medication if it's left out. You may want to move your pills to the refrigerator first (after first checking the temperature - see article).
Actually, if you live in a hot climate and don't use A/C, you should probably do that anyway.
...If you can...
🥵🫠
Where I live, we'll get to 100° on hot summer day without AC, so it wouldn't take much more to get it up to 120°.
diatomaceous earth works well. but it gets everywhere
Mosquito
Vestigal nipples.
Are you sure this is bug bites and not a rash or infection, like ringworm for example?
Yeah, I also tried searching and rash came up as at least the same possibility
My vote is bed bug. I’ve had a few encounters while traveling. It’s happened to me in a C shape before, once. Although not as tight of a C shape as yours.
Sorry. It was me.
Need banana for scale.
That's dumb, you can't weigh something with a banana.
Not with that attitude
We could use it as a fulcrum, balancing a known weight standard at one end...with adjustments for tip to tip efficiency...
spider. they bit multiple times.
Idk why this is getting down voted. Spiders usually bite in a line, not that weird it's a c shape. Impossible to tell without more info. But I'd bet spider.
when ur on the internet, nobody knows u r a spider
The spider was probably drunk.
Relevant video on spiders on drugs
Downvoted because it's extremely unlikely. Spiders rarely bite in the first place and 5 times is bordering on absurd.
Utter nonsense. Where did you even get this?
It is indeed impossible to tell, but betting on a spider is one of the worst bets you can make in this case.
No it's absolutely a spider, I can tell.
Source: spider
Am spider, only bite even number of times. Never odd.
I was thinking the same. I've been bit by a lot of things but never recall being bit by a spider (at least while conscious). Maybe 1 or 2 bites I'd believe but 5 would be incredibly unlikely.
I've had a lot of exposure to spiders for the last 20 years, including keeping my own since I was 16. I've never been bitten and my brother (who did more of the handling than me), was only bitten twice. And we kept plenty of the more "aggressive" spiders that are much more likely to bite than your average spider.
And a single spider biting more than at most 2 times is pretty much unheard of. 5 bites is a very strong indicator it was a blood seeking insect.
I can tell because a lifetime of spider bites. They absolutely do bite often.
Unless you regularly sleep in a pit of spiders, seems like you have a lifetime of misconceptions. They don't.
One of the only completely honest people! Even doctors and entomologists rarely are confident enough to diagnose the specific cause just from images of a bite...
you would see puncture marks.
I touched poision ivy once and it looked like this. If it doesn't go away like a normal mosquito bite, might need to get it checked out so you can get the prescription cream.
contact dermatitis also does that randomly.
Smallest UFO landing ever.
Found hundreds of these on my entire body once. Never happened again, never found out what it was
Pray you don't get bit again before it finishes loading
Probably 5pin GX16. Might be fatal.
I can't really tell scale there but several bites in a row like that might indicate bed bugs, check the corner of your mattress, and any clothes near where you sleep
They go in straight-ish lines, at least the European/Euro-Asian ones I've dealt with.
If you've had chicken pox before and have had mysterious pain/tingling on an arm/leg on the same side of the body as those for the past few days it could be shingles
I just had it at 33 last week and it looked very similar to that when it first popped up
this looks more like contact dermatitis. varicella has very distinctive pox marks, and shingles, i had it clusters alot as a rash.
5 mosquitos.
A coven of mosquito witches.
You allergic to cats? Look like one walked on you.
could be scabies
Probably a flea, based on this: https://brightside.me/articles/10-bug-bites-anyone-should-be-able-to-identify-373860/
Or fly? https://blog.entomologist.net/wp-content/images/?q=what+are+the+different+types+of+bug+bite+marks
Sorry, that was me. Your flesh just looked delicious, and I thought "Well, I COULD go for some tasty drinking of the blood of the innocent...."
You just wouldn't be as tasty if you had murdered someone and were guilty.
a bug from fediverse trying to create the 'Fedibite'
Hang on, you’re about to be kidnapped by aliens!
Demon
Is this loss?
Shingles? Have you been having joint/back pain or any other intense pain?
Is it itchy? I get cold urticaria and it sometimes looks similar.
Looks like 3 fangs plus another set and a half.
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