Anyone else being bitten by an insect (Blandflord fly?) in January ?

[misspea]

I consider myself a bit of an expert on bites as mosquitos/fleas/midges love me - but usually I see/witness them biting me - and not usually in December (though it is warm at the mo).

So I am putting this to my local popular Brixton forum to find out if anyone else is experiencing the same - I'm being bitten sometimes two or three times a day - in my room.

None of my other housemates is being bitten. Neither is my bed partner.

I can't see any blood marks on the mattress or other evidence of bedbugs (eughhh) - though interestingly I've learned they can live up to 5ft from the bed.

No sign of false widow spiders.

Mosquitos - I usually hear the bastards and won't sleep til i've squashed em.

Fleas: we have cats but i know flea bites very well, can feel them landing on me and these definitely aren't.

I've seen a couple of little black flies which look like fruit flies - but there's no fruit, food or half drunk wine/beer glasses in my room - and fruit flies can look like Blandford flies. So my current thinking is Blandford Flies but these need to be near water - or has anyone experienced these in Brixton. (i read they have on the Herne Hill forum)

So any experience of Blandford Flies or other suggestions - specific to Brixton - appreciated.
cheers

 

[misspea]

ps I am about to spray indorex and will 'bomb' if necessary - and am not calling pest control.

 

[19sixtysix]

Have you got a humidity problem. Very dry air leads to what feel like bites on the legs but are actually static shocks from carpets. Took me a long time to work this out at my work.

 

[marty21]

I have been to Blandford and escaped unbitten

 

[misspea]

definitely not due to humidity - there's poison within which i have to try damn hard not to scratch.

 

[uk benzo]

I got bitten by Blandford flies in brockwell park at the end of August 2014. The bites became welts that felt like acid was poured on them. Had to take hardcore antibiotics. It took about 6 months for the urge to itch sensation to completely subside.

 

[two sheds]

I was bitten by a mosquito in bloody December, four days ago.

 

[misspea]

How did you know it was a Blandford fly UKBenzo?

 

[cuppa tee]

How did you know it was a Blandford fly UKBenzo?

ithe blandford forum is a good source of info iirc

 

[not-bono-ever]

if you get a hit from a blandford, its pretty likely it would not be like anything you would get from a mossie or bedbug. had to take several days off when i got bit - it was that bad- leg swelled up and went purple. horrendous

 

[uk benzo]

How did you know it was a Blandford fly UKBenzo?

Went to see gp due to itch making me go insane and having parts of my leg look like purple plums. GP said that they were getting a lot of cases of Blandford fly bites.

 

[5t3IIa]

dp

 

[5t3IIa]

I consider myself a bit of an expert on bites as mosquitos/fleas/midges love me - but usually I see/witness them biting me - and not usually in December (though it is warm at the mo).

So I am putting this to my local popular Brixton forum to find out if anyone else is experiencing the same - I'm being bitten sometimes two or three times a day - in my room.

None of my other housemates is being bitten. Neither is my bed partner.

I can't see any blood marks on the mattress or other evidence of bedbugs (eughhh) - though interestingly I've learned they can live up to 5ft from the bed.

No sign of false widow spiders.

Mosquitos - I usually hear the bastards and won't sleep til i've squashed em.

Fleas: we have cats but i know flea bites very well, can feel them landing on me and these definitely aren't.

I've seen a couple of little black flies which look like fruit flies - but there's no fruit, food or half drunk wine/beer glasses in my room - and fruit flies can look like Blandford flies. So my current thinking is Blandford Flies but these need to be near water - or has anyone experienced these in Brixton. (i read they have on the Herne Hill forum)

So any experience of Blandford Flies or other suggestions - specific to Brixton - appreciated.
cheers

Wait wait wait, hang on? This is a thing? I have been bitten by something recently.... I thought I had caught a flea from my brother's dog, who does not have fleas Then maybe it was different washing power?

I have not set eyes on any creatures. I have big red itchy bumps that are not in rows (like bedbugs) and... this is a thing?

I'm in Clapham, off the Common, but not a pond part though so not near standing water.

 

[keybored]

Apply liberally to skin.

Bacillus thuringiensis israelensis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

[metalguru]

Red itchy bumps can be urticaria rather than bites. I often get it in winter: Urticaria (hives) - NHS Choices

 

[redsquirrel]

If it's Blandford fly bite you could always try this.

 

[5t3IIa]

Red itchy bumps can be urticaria rather than bites. I often get it in winter: Urticaria (hives) - NHS Choices

Cheers.