there is an almost microscopic red bug on my bed?
Image by Jessica Whittle Photography
Found this guy in the parking lot at the vet today. I was afraid he was going to get hurt so I relocated him back to the flower bed. He was the coolest worm I’ve ever seen and actually quite large!
I think it’s a Tersa Sphinx caterpillar: www.duke.edu/~jspippen/naturephotos/tersa-sphinx.htm
Question by I > U: there is an almost microscopic red bug on my bed?
i have a dog that sometimes sleeps on it
actually almost every day
a few times i get bitten by something i dunnno
i vaccinate my dog anti-flea/worms/ticks whatever etc etc i can giv to him each month
but i guess its the only source of how the bug got to my bed
or im just more flithier than my dog and im infecting him
poor dog…
anyways
how do i get rid of them?
What do you think? Answer below!
7 Responses to there is an almost microscopic red bug on my bed?
Leave a Reply
I don’t want to embarass you, but you might have BED BUGS!
http://www.entm.purdue.edu/publichealth/images/downloads/lifecycle-bedbug.jpg
They are tiny tiny tiny, and commonly found in…. you guessed it: beds! You need to call an exterminator or bug guy to get rid of them. They’ll tell you everything you need to do on your end, they’ll come in and fumigate and you and the dog will probably have to stay out of the house for several days afterwards.
Good luck… I hope they aren’t bed bugs, but it does sound like them.
☼Hello Sunshine☼
February 13, 2012 at 6:21 am
That is probably just a bug. Ticks aren’t usually red, all the ones I’ve seen, and neither are fleas.
Pick it up and flush it down the toilet.
Loraine F
February 13, 2012 at 6:33 am
love bug. it got u in bed… what else could it be lol
no it is bed bugs
Quiet Cobra
February 13, 2012 at 6:50 am
It’s a type of mite, get revolution it will solve the problem as well as doing fleas and heartworm.
Emma
February 13, 2012 at 6:56 am
They might be chiggers..Chiggers burrow under your skin. Google more about them. But if that’s not it, then it could be bed bugs. Wash your sheets and blankets then call the exterminator!
Mickey
February 13, 2012 at 7:25 am
Bed Bugss
Dance <3
February 13, 2012 at 7:37 am
As Mickey suggested…I’m leaning toward chiggers. Does it look like a very very small red fuzz? We are loaded down with them here…and it is hell when they get under your skin. Basically, they secrete something that turns your skin to liquid and then they eat your soup-ified skin. Yuck. The only home remedy I know to work is to spread clear finger nail polish where they have buried in and they sufficate. I do NOT recommend doing that if they bury under your dogs skin.
KKingS
February 13, 2012 at 7:51 am