Trying to enjoy what I believe has to be one of the last 70º days of this year. However, this summer and fall have given rise to these weird little eensy-weensy black bugs. These things are so small they actually are coming into the house through the window screens. Their bite is like nothing you've ever felt, so painful you expect to see blood.
I was so annoyed by them that I called our pest control company to see if they could make a special trip out and do anything about them. I hate that I'm missing wonderful 'open window' weather because I can't open the windows!
The girl at Ecoshield said I should send her a photo of the bugs. So I sent her theses.
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I found this interesting news story about the little darlings. Also, this short and informative article from Iowa State on Google. Which I also sent her. She said the same thing that the article says, there really isn't anything that works on them that would be safe to use around the house.
So I guess the comforting part is that they are neither sucking nor depositing things into you, they are in fact not even biting you. They are only probing you to see if you are food. Makes me feel so much better! It is true that they seem immune to any bug spray or repellent and that as soon as it started to warm up on my front porch they appeared.
I get mosquito-bite type welts and I have a ring of them around my wrists and ankles and some along the neckline of my t-shirt.
What a great way to ruin our beautiful last days of Indian Summer and actually have me wishing for frost.
1 comment:
oh yeah...showed my welts to a co-worker today and her response was, "oh yeah, the "no-se'em" bugs".
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