[garydotson]

This invisible flying insect has bitten me for several years. It is active more in the dark hours or not a too well lighted area. It is very active around my bed and under the covers. This insect bites me in other location other than in my house. It bites me mostly out of my eye sight alignment such as back, backside ,of arms neck and legs.This insect is most active on dark nights and rainy periods.Can you tell what this insect is called and what I can do to climate this pest.This insect seems to live in my house mostly in the areas I stay in most around the chairs computer desk and bed area.I have sprayed flying insect supposed to kill for years they seem to help for short periods go time , but not always.Please Help Me! Thank You Very Much

[garydotson]

In my previous comments I forgot to mention that the insect stings and leaves before the sting is felt. I sometime see it once it get two to three feet away.At this point it seems to become invisible and cannot tell the direction it moves.The insect appears to be a large gnat or small mosquito,it appear to be of a light shade of brown. Thank You

[anyadvice]

Gary: No one, or endomologist, has yet to identify the critter causing your misery. I suffered a similar invasion about a year ago, and a pest control expert from the U. of Colorado, concluded it must be a microscopic bird bite. We discovered a bird's nest under my deck, and with a microscope, he the nest filled with bird mites. We used heat remediation to rid the house of the bird mites. It's expensive (about $4,000) but effective. A series of heaters raises the temperature inside the house to 130 degrees, and after six hours, every insect has been killed off by dehydration of their body. Feel free to email me and I can tell you more. Ron in Colorado {email removed}

[larrylarry1]

hello, I've been dealing with this as well. Its awful...

anyway, I was sprinkling sulfer around my apartment to try to rid myself of these. The hand I was using to grab the sulfer felt tingly and I decided to put the sulfer all over my body. I stood naked in the bathtub covered in sulfer. After a few minutes, there was movement throughout my body, the feeling was sickening. The hand that was already covered began to cramp up violently. Fearing going into shock, I rinsed everything off.

Now I have been just using it in spots. Worms have been coming out where I use it. Small worms came out of my face all over. I think I have a very large one in my hand because you can see a large shape under my skin when there is sulfer on it. I rinsed my mouth out with it and hundreds came out of my lips and roof of mouth.

I'm going to the hospital again tomorrow. They have told me 3x that I'm delusional. I walked out of the middle of one appointment, another I had to talk to a shrink. One ER visit, I asked for them to look at my skin with a microscope and they said they did not have one. What the heck western medicine get it together.

[ma0641]

Sulfer is inert enough to not cause your cramping. Hundreds of worms? Really?

[larrylarry1]

Yeah, it wasn't the sulfer, it was the worms reaction to the sulfer that caused the cramping. I've used sulfer on plants for bug and mold control for a long time; gotten it on my skin before without reaction.

Huge quantities of worms coming out of my body. When I put it on the bridge of my nose, it looks like a forest of popped blackheads. Super gross. When it gets on the big ones though, its really painful.

[ma0641]

Well Larry, as a degreed Chemist and occupational health specialist, I believe you are seeing things that are bordering on being neurotic. "Worms" of that quantity would have caused serious side effects from their byproducts. Sulfur does nothing- how does it "react" with something under your skin and cause them to come out? It is a solid, insoluble in body fluids and does't just go into your body. Seek additional help please. .

[ster411]

Look up Thrips. May be what you are looking for. Took me months to find that's what we had. My dog and I get bit constantly/ The rest of the family are never bothered by them. Would have gone insane. Truly/

[ma0641]

STER did you read all the posts by this person? Recurrent questionable circumstances.

[jackie14]

My sister has had these bugs for the past four years. We visited her six weeks ago, Now my husband and I have got them as well. She has tried lots of chemical sprays, flee bombs, scabies body wash and creams for short team relief. It's a wonder she hasn't died from all the chemicals she has used. My car is infested I have been spraying it out with a surface spray but I think they are feeding on it. You can see them if you get them in the correct light. Sometimes as soon as I open my car door they fly out. Yesterday we where out shopping and the young guy serving us started scratching his head! Has anyone had any luck with natural sprays, creams or body washes. I have been washing my hair in a Moov head lice shampoo. I have been bitten on eye lids, back of head, neck, neck, around jaw and body. Would be grateful for any help.

We live in Australia

[Arkay1]

I have been experiencing the same for last 10 years. Tried hundreds of techniques to get rid of them.

Every technique work only for 4 to 5 days. Like I spray different perfumes after a gap of 4 to 5 days. It seems the bugs get confused. Then they become used to that scent.

I got prepared a mosquito net type cage of fine malmal cloth. But they enter that also.

Their bite is worse than the mosquito.

I tried very hard to catch some of them. And found they are miniature mosquitos.

Camphor burning help instantly.

In the winters I use rubber bands to close my cuffs and pants openings and spray perfumes on them as well as on open areas of my body. I had good night sleep using these techniques.

But as the summer heat is increasing they are also increasing in great numbers and I couldn't see them. I use chinese electric fly swatter and it kills them making the electric sound but they are so great in numbers that it gets discharged every half an hour.

Whenever we tried fumigating our bedrooms with pest control chemicals they went away for a week. But soon returns every time.

Please, any specialist in pest control see to it, what actually these flying insects are and how we can cope up.

[Catsmine]

I tried very hard to catch some of them. And found they are miniature mosquitos.

Camphor burning help instantly.

Mosquito control will require correcting the source of the problem. That source is standing water where the larvae mature. Removing the standing water or covering it with a surface film will kill off the larvae. Petroleum products were used at one time to create such a film on ponds and bogs, but they also killed fish and amphibians. There is a product available in the United States marketed under the brand name "Mosquito Dunks." It consists of crystal cakes designed to float on the surface and release larvacide into the water.

Your phrasing makes me think you may be in another part of the world since this is an international website. Look up that product and see if anything comparable is available in your area.

Previous posts have mentioned "thrips," which can look similar to very small mosquitoes. Check this website from the University of California: Thrips Management Guidelines--UC IPM