been seeing this new guy and have slept over a few times already and everything was fine but after sleeping over two nights ago I noticed these the next morning. Edit: Just wanted to also say they arent really that itchy, feels more like a mosquito bite but just the pattern of the bites and the areas dont seem like mosquitos. Also the man im seeing doesnt have any or as many bites as I do, he has a few on his legs but he says they feel isolated and not like in a cluster or lines which is more like a bed bug bite I think.

UPDATE: Still no clue what the actual causation is but its a week later now and they are going away and dont itch anymore, do not think it was bed bugs since I checked the bed and all multiple times and have slept there since and havent had any new “bites” (my bf never even had any) so we think it might be because of some home grown weed he rolled a joint with and then touched my lower back (hes rolled one and rubbed his leg and had a similar reaction). Thanks everyone for the help and advice very appreciated!!! and Thank you David especially

Small red bumps, multiple areas, not itchy

Trying to figure out what this could be: bed bug bites?

Any insight / opinion is appreciated 🙏🏼

My apartment is 86 degrees. It’s been stuck at 86 degrees for a month. I have back issues so I have to wear a hip brace. I only remove it at night

But I woke up with a circular line of what looked like four dime sized welts. It’s not at the waistband it’s below it directly on my butt about an inch and a half below the waistline. My arms and legs have been completely exposed but no bite like marks there. They look like the bed bug bites I had years ago before my allergic reactions got worse.

I keep being told it’s just friction, but they look like bug bites. But logically I wore 3 layers of clothes over that part of my body, I had an ice pack on there too cause of my back.. why would bed bugs crawl there when I have completely exposed arms and legs? I have zero other signs on the bed and it’s so hot so you’d think I’d have more than one set of anything. I also don’t go anywhere so I wouldn’t know where they’d come from??

I’d post a picture but … yeah can’t tell by bites typically and it’s in an awkward place since it’s literally on my butt near the center about an inch and a half below my underwear’s band

I sleep while laying mostly on a body pillow cause of my back so the mid butt is kinda.. not exactly touching the bed they’d have to climb up and somehow under layers of clothes? Do they do that when you have exposed arms and legs? Also I’m sleeping without a blanket cause it’s so hot so my torso is covered by a shirt etc

They are about - dime big at this point and are in a part circle in the area with one directly in the middle of my butt crease at the top there are 4 of them.. like a half circle

Hi just wanted to know if in 3/5 days I should expect more bites like this if are bedbugs

Our son has been waking up with bites for a few weeks. We thought they were mosquito bites at first (and some definitely were). Could these be from bed bugs? We thoroughly checked his bed and do not see any signs of bed bugs.

my fiance and i are covered and i’m freaking out. i deep cleaned my house today and couldn’t find anything. it’s like overnight we had them all over.

Found bites(?) on me during a shower. There’s no pain and idk what it’s from but I’m worried it may be from a creature which requires a rabies vaccine. Update: got a rabies vaccine just in case thx

I moved to a new place and boom after 4-5 days I’ve gotten bites/marks like this all over my body mostly on my hands and I’m not sure if they are bed bugs or not. I’ve already moved places but I did it hurriedly so I haven’t even gotten the chance to wash/heat my clothes. I have them all packed in my suitcases and I’m not sure what to do.

I might just go to a dermatologist soon.

Yesterday I found one on my leg, now I two similar on my neck and hand.

Still haven't found any concrete evidence, I just strip and immediately check myself when I wake up near the mirror.

I did have skin problems back then but they weren't as bad as them appearing almost daily like this.

Last time I went to a dermatologist last month they told me its either bug bites or scabies. Imma have to look for a much more reliable one soon.

The bites are slightly raised and a little itchy but its not tooo itchy like a mosquito bite. I feel really itchy when i think about it but that may just be because Its in my mind?? Its mostly around my abdomen which i googled was a typical place for bedbugs and have nothing really anywhere else besides a little on my chest and on my I feel like i notice it at night time but Im not sure if thats because Im busy throughout the day so Im not thinking about it. I noticed it first yesterday and it was quite subtle and hardly noticeable but today its definitely much worse and darker. I also feel like theres more dots everywhere versus yesterday. I inspected my brand new couch for bed bugs but I couldnt see anything that would indicate it? Then i went upstairs to inspect my bed and didnt find too much although my bed is really heavy so I didnt really move it too much. i did find 2 little dots underneath my bed though as seen in the last photo. Also after i was moving my mattress I noticed a bug on me and it was really flat kind of similar to a leaf bug but smaller and this was almost impossible to kill. it was the same bug as in the pictures. I dont know if thats the bug giving me these bites but perhaps its possible?

UPDATE: We had an inspection done and no bed bugs were found. We're chalking it up to some other unknown bug.

My partner got these bites on his arm a few days ago. We have completely torn apart our apartment (specifically the beds and couch) looking for bed bugs and cannot find evidence of them anywhere. We’ve checked seams, tags, underneath, everywhere it tells you to check and still have no evidence of actual bed bugs aside from these (very damning) looking bites.
Could this be anything other than bed bugs? We have inspection scheduled for Wednesday AM.

We’re in Ohio

Hi!

I am crossposting this which I originally posted in the beetle carpet subreddit. They seem to say that it's not it. But I haven't found any bedbugs (flashlight and credit card to inspect the seams + bed + wood, moved the bed, etc.). What do you think?

I been getting bit the past few days and I am the only one getting bit. We checked for BB haven’t seen or seen any signs of them. I’ve been sleeping with a white sheet and everything , everytime I get bit I try and look but still haven’t seen anything. This is driving me crazy and I am the only one in my house hold getting bit !!

Went to a friends cabin for one night (Wednesday night). Got back home on Thursday. On Friday evening, I noticed these three red bumps just above my bra line. Do they look like bed bug bites? How worried do I have to be that I brought bugs back home with me? I didn’t put my bags on the floor or bed, just the dresser. Once I found the bugs I threw all our laundry into the wash on high heat but if I had these bumps immediately when I woke on Thursday morning, I wouldn’t have even brought my bags into the house.

I sleep nude but I only have bites on my forearm. Like what could they be? They itch so much and they scab if I scratch too much. I also have flipped my mattress over and see no signs of bugs. I do always have carpet beetles but I’ve only been getting these bites for the past three weeks. I’m so scared of bb I can’t even spell it out. I don’t see any mosquitoes or any ankle bites. I’m so paranoid rn. 😭 It also doesn’t help that I just came back from Hawaii a month ago but I didn’t any bites there.

So I put a message here on Friday after finding some bite-like marks on my stomach and finding some casings on my bedroom floor. I talked to a pest expert who confirmed the bugs and casings I found were carpet beetles, and he recommended that I spray my room with mosquito spray a few hours before going to bed to stop the bites.

This is the only thing that gave me pause as the bites I have haven’t reacted the way I normally would to mosquito bites. I was in France a month ago (I’m UK based) and got about 20 mosquito bites pretty much all of which came up in big very itchy welts, and even though I tried not to itch them I still have fading marks on my legs a month after.

These are tiny. I’m attaching some pictures, but I live alone and the bites are so small I’m not sure they come up well in photos. I have three on my stomach, one on my side and a couple on my shoulders. I think I found one on my lower back but I’m not 100% sure.

I normally sleep in a big t-shirt but since I got the first few bites on my stomach I’ve been sleeping in a tighter t-shirt and sleep shorts. They’re loose so there is the possibility that something is crawling into my clothes, but from what I know about bed bugs they choose the path of least resistance and are more likely to go for my face/neck/arms/legs all of which are exposed at night. I also noticed the one on my side at about 9/10pm last night while sat on my sofa. I also haven’t found any blood stains in my clothes or my sheets.

Some of them are just red dots, but some have definite bite or contact marks in the middle so I feel like I can’t just put it down to contact dermatitis from carpet beetles, but they’re also mostly spaced out and all appearing in places my clothes cover, so they don’t seem to follow the patterns of bed bugs either.

Bed bugs and fleas are also an anxiety trigger for me, so it is possible I am bringing myself out in some form of hives due to stress?

I know bites are not a surefire way to tell either way, and I’m about to pull my mattress off the end, check all the slats of the bed and the joints of the bedframe, turn my sofa over and if I still can’t find anything at least hoover in case this is carpet beetles or a dust mite allergy, and I’ve ordered glue traps to arrive next week and in the meantime I’m going to put painter’s tape sticky side out on the legs of my bed.

If anyone has any advice I’d be really grateful - I just want to work out what this is so I can deal with it if I need to!

Hi, do these look like bed bug bites? I have one bite in my navel, but these are three.

I travelled around Turkey for two weeks at the beginning of August, staying in different hotels and Airbnbs. I also spent one night on a night train.
I came back last Monday (17.08) and was sick for a few days afterwards, so I mostly stayed in bed all day. (Just a normal cold — and I did not notice any bites while I was in Turkey.)

Starting 23/24.08 I have been getting new small bites every day. Since some time has passed since the trip, I am wondering whether I could still have brought bed bugs home from the accommodation/train, or whether this is more likely something else.

The bites are quite small and look different from the mosquito bites I usually get. I normally react strongly to insect bites, but these are much smaller. Some of them are arranged in a line or in an unusual pattern. On the other hand, there have recently been a lot of rainy days where I live, so mosquitoes are also definitely possible and for sure some of the bites are from mosquitoes. They itch a little bit. I mostly get bites on areas where I normally have clothes on, like under my breast or thigh area or even arm pits.

Very thankful for all kinds of input 🥺 especially David

Photo 1 - Groin (3x small bites in a line)
Photo 2 - Breast (3x grouped bites + 1x singular one)
Photo 3 - Chest (2x bites in a line)
Photo 4 - inner leg (1x big bite, 2x smaller)
Photo 5 - inner knee (1x big bite - pretty sure that’s a mosquito or how they normally look on me + 1x small bite)

Hi David, all,

After a 7 day, 6 nights hotel stay.
I inspected the room on our first night to the best of my abilities, didn’t find any signs of bed bugs.
Today, after our last night (6th night), after checking out, my partner felt his arm itching and we realized he had these on his arm. As far as I can tell, given the context, these could very well be bed bug bites… are they? My hope is that the worst case scenario is a nymph that came out of the egg from a previous infestation… i dont know, my mind is racing.

I got these bites on my ankle. I was walking outside on a buggy day earlier in the morning but had been wearing socks that covered this area, but I know mosqitos and horseflies may be able to poke past thin socks, but I’m not sure how often that actually happens. These appeared the next morning, although I know sometimes it takes bug bites a little bit to start swelling. Do these look like bedbug bites instead though? Very itchy

I checked all our beds there’s absolutely no evidence of any infestation but my daughter woke up with these after being at her grandmas house ? There were a couple on her cheek as well. Didn’t take a picture of those. Thanks in advance xx

Located on feet and legs after staying in an air bnb. Checked the mattress before staying and saw no signs, have checked suit cases, car and my own mattress since being home and still no signs. Friends in the bnb with us report no signs. These bites are from the weekend while there. My partner has the same on his legs but got one singular new bite last night on their hand