Having seen many bed bug bites over the past few years her bites clearly resembled those performed by a bed bug.
Lone bed bug bite.
A bite from a single lone wolf bed bug will usually have a 3 bite track pattern unless they are disturbed while feeding on you and the lone bed bug will only feed once every three to 10 days.
Bites can appear in tight lines of multiple small red marks.
One bug may bite multiple times.
She had bites in 2 different areas.
While they don t carry disease they can cause.
Bed bugs are small parasitic insects that feed on human blood.
The bite marks will appear disappear and then reappear over the course of several days.
Red welts small flat or raised swelling.
According to a study by the university of arkansas a lone female bed bug can reproduce to an infestation of 500 or more bed bugs in 2 months.
Read more about bed bugs.
But there are bite characteristics that can show up that can help differentiate chiggers from other bugs.
For one thing chigger bites tend to take itchiness to a whole new level.
She said she d received the first set of bites 8 days earlier and then the most recent ones on her arm the night.
May go unnoticed for a few days.
They often bite humans during the night or early morning when people are asleep.