Originally Posted by
Catsmine
You should use some transparent tape instead of the lint roller and catch some specimens to take to the University or an Exterminator's office for examination under a microscope and identification. If you know what you're dealing with you can deal with it much more effectively.
I have some I picked from me, while they were biting me in alcohol, some on clear tape and some on the lint roller. I am sending them to Cornell Insect identification lab see if they can identify and end my misery.
The exterminator said he has never seen in 27 years anything like it.
After extermination the population diminished but did not desappear and this week, 2 weeks later they are increasing again.
I also called City departments, I even got transferred a few times but the veterinary department where I was transferred last said they cannot help me unless I have a complaint about my neighbor or landlord. So if we have an infestation of these creatures as I think we have, we have no help from Vector control or the city. I read lots of blogs and there are MANY people in the area with the same problem they are not though concentrated in one site or another. Maybe we should gather.
Have you heard from the woman in Long island that was taken from her house in a Hazmat suit? I hope I do not get there, and ooops hold on one just got inside the blouse.. did not find that one. Continuing.. she was taken in a hazmat suit her body FULL of bird mites.
My landlord has been cooperative,he called the exterminator once again, although he said he has never seen anything like it and no one else in the building has it and that I or someone must have brought it from the outside. Well I know of no one close to me that have something like it, I work at home doe not go out much but for yoga.. so... I don't know.
The back yard here is concrete, I hear birds but do not see them. The next door building has a huge back yard full of green and they have birds. I said that because I think they are or bird or rodent mites.
I know we have squirrels as the cable people said my internet cable outside was eaten by a squirrel and he replaced it .
This week they want my eyes, I spent the morning picking them while they were crawling to my eyes and nose and put them in the alcohol vial. Right now I can feel them crawling on my back though they are not biting yet.
They also seem to like my computer screen... there a few specks here and there. But their favorite place is my bed and my body.
Hope Cornell can identify them ASAP. The exterminator is coming back Thursday.
I hope until then that I do not go mad. Lately seems I can even hear plic plac, and think of little egs bursting and they coming after me...
I do not wish this to my worst enemy! Seriously!