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I was bitten by what I was thinking might have been transplanted bed bugs...but thenfound this critter as I was cleaning...looks to me like that bulb is full of blood...probably mine! Please tell me what it is. I am still believing that I brought it home to Washington state from Central California.
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- Submitted: Jan 9, 2020
- Photographed: Jan 8, 2020
- Spider: Unidentified
- Location: Seattle, Washington, United States
- Spotted Indoors: Other
- Found in web?: No
- Attributes:
spiders don’t bite humans to feed, and they rarely bite at all; if you suspect you have bedbugs then it may be eating those
Thanks. I’m not suspecting that I had bed bugs. I guess what I wasn’t able to articulate very clearly in my earlier post is that something what is biting me. I made a trip to California to clear out some items of my mother who had passed away. I brought the things home to Washington State and was going through some old pictures as they were spread out on my bed. The environment they came from was not the cleanest in the world. And I didn’t take precautions. Something definitely was biting my hands and forearms and legs. I did… Read more »
the picture isn’t close enough to make out any blatant identifying details but I’m taking a wild guess at some kind of Steatoda (false widow)?
Sorry about the loss of your mother. The only thing that would bite you like that that I know of, is fleas that have been waiting a long time for a meal. I hope not, a bug bomb is the only effective way to stop them. If you have cats or dogs they will need a liquid flea preventive, the kind that is dabbed between the pet’s shoulders. I’ve had to do this to my 4 pets after taking in a stray dog during a storm. Now I do a flea check before anyone else’s dog enters my house. The… Read more »
Thank you so much for your Insight! I’m thinking that you nailed the allergic reaction considering that my hands and my arms are worst hit, neck and face and a few on my legs. Super appreciate your input and now I’m very sorry that I killed what could have possibly been my little friend!
I’m so glad! I thought of you today when I was handling mystery things in the big un-presorted bins of donations at Goodwill By The Pound. The place is loaded with chemicals and spores and mystery fluids (yet going there is addictive). I noticed my hands had turned bright cherry red and swollen in reaction to something in the mixed heaps of donations, I’ve never seen the tops of my hands turn that particular color before. It could have been a substance from anything anywhere. The danger is worth it when shoppers find gold, jewels, wads of cash, and strange… Read more »