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Let's hope you are right, because I have just found them in my house. Both my husband and I have been bitten by them in bed at night. I caught one of them this morning at 6 am on a piece of scotch tape as it was trying to crawl away from the spot where it bit me.
We have a swallows nest on our front porch that is crawling with mites. The last baby bird is about to fledge, then I am going to knock down the nest, Clorox the surface and spray. Deep Woods Off did kill those I sprayed, so I know it works.
Thank you for posting this. We just found them in our house (coming in through windowsills underneath where a nest had been built into an open soffit) and I found the "scary" site you're talking about and had a mental breakdown. I'm not kidding.
It makes me calmer to know the facts. We've gotten rid of the nest, sprayed with insecticide up there, and I'm spraying Chlorox and Lysol on the windowsills every hour or so. I still see a few mites, but their numbers are greatly reduced. I'm hoping and praying we got rid of the problem, because that other site had me in tears, worried for my daughter's safety.
Valerie...the facts will set you free...I'm glad someone else saw the "scary" site I was talking about. I did not name it out of respect, but it is enough to scare you silly, and most written in it is false.
SO glad I found this site and thanks so much for the correct info. You hit the nail right on the head when you said reading the misinformation out there can cause some serious distress and anxiety. I had just emailed the link for the alarmest site warning my wife to keep close watch on herself and our twin girls. (Initially I was really freaked out thinking they were ticks.)
We had a finch nest in a hanging planter outside our front door. The last bird just fledged and I brought the planter out back far away from the house. In the process, I ended up with tons of bugs all over my arm. I've had the creepy crawleys for a few days now!
Thank you for the information. Just spent the past hour or so combing the net trying to figure out what has been biting the people in my household. We first thought of fleas as we have four cats, but they're clean (anyone that has animals knows those signs....). However, after reading several pages (and yes, I saw the "scary" one too - UGH!)I realized that the now abandoned bird's nest in my attic under the eaves is most likely the culprit. And here I was trying to be nice by waiting until after breeding season to deal with it! Well, I'm off to find a ladder so I can get it cleared up. Thanks for the info!
I wish you were correct but I can tell you from experience you are not (at least in my case). I was infested with bird mites a couple of months ago (dead bird and nest found in attic). The source was removed and the PCO sprayed and fogged my apartment several times. The mites did not go away. I threw out most of my furniture and I fogged the apt myself and a few days later I moved. Now the infestation has followed me to my new apartment.
Unfortunately, the other site you are referring too has been right more times than wrong so far in regards to my infestation problem. I get bit and feel them crawling on me all the time. I have sprayed and fogged my new place and they are still there. The whole ordeal is enough to make you crazy...which currently I am not (but may soon be).
It has been a very trying experience. Unfortunately a lot of the research out there is not correct or the problem I am experiencing would have ended weeks ago.
I am sure some of the people on the other web site are nut jobs but they all cannot be crazy. I'm sure many of them are people like me experiencing the worst case scenario of a bird mite infestation.
I have a nest with baby robins in it and have recently noticed the mites, if you go to a pet store you should be able to find a mite spray for birds or reptiles, the one I am using is organic and even safe to spray the babies with!! I sprayed yesterday and today and am noticing a HUGE difference both on the birds and around the nest already....give it a try it may work for you as well!!
I too hope you are right. We had a nest with 3 dead baby birds in our wall. After removing as much of the nest as we could see, we began seeing the bugs and getting bit. This has been going on since the end of May. We cleaned and vacuumed every day after work until 2 or 3 am in the morning. We had the house professionally sprayed 3x now, and though we have not been bitten for over 2 months we can still feel "wisps" on our legs, arms and hands all the time, and we now have separate spray bottles of bleach, ammonia, or alcohol all over the house which we constantly use. We have even been spraying the cars everyday.
We also saw the 'scary' site you are talking about, and my husband, who has been scared to death himself by it, has been trying to keep me from having a complete mental breakdown, of which the crying and hysteria has left me on the brink, several times.
We have someone coming in this week to spray again with a miticide that you mentioned in your article, even though we do not see any live bugs anymore. (Dead ones keep appearing, but we do not know from where).
Thank you so much for this information site. Could you please arrange for your site to come up first when someone Googles 'Bird Mites', so people will not rely solely on what they read on the other site...which pops up so easily all over the place. The stress I endured from reading that site is phenomenal. They should be sued for terrifying people.
We just want to be able to live in our house--panic free, but I don't know if I'll ever forget what I read on that other site, and keep wondering that these things will come back and start all over again.
Ithere any way to capture these mites?
My wife feels things crawling on her all night after we cleared out a rat infested shed. There were no birds in the shed but the neighbor has an aviary full of parakeets (about 100) about 40 feet away from our shed.
After reading everything about bird bites on the various websites I feel hopeless.
But now I'm thinking along these lines:
We had a problem with mold that NOTHING would get rid of. I spent 1000's of dollars on things that didn't work. Finally I found several places the mold was growing and cultured it in a petri dish. Then I experimented with the various things that claimed to kill mold to find out what would kill the nmold we had. Only 2 products worked, and only one product worked well. Some of the products most commonly claimed to kill mold had almost no effect on it (among them bleach).
So I want to try to capture some of these mites and run similar tests on them. But the problem is we can't see them.
I've looked at places where my wife feels things crawling with a 30x lighted magnifier and can see nothing that even remotely resembles a living thing. I've pressed tape on places were she feels them and looked at the tape under a microscope at 100x to 300x and still can't see anything.
So is there any concensous on how small these mites are? How can you capture them to look at them?
She has no visible bites and we can't see anything. But she definitely feels them crawling on her and biting her, especially at night.
We are going to have to mortgage our house and rent motel room after motel room to try the eradication methods that are suggested on various sites ( and which worked by the way the last time she was getting bit about a year ago).
But our money and ability to borrow is nearing its end.
I need to know how at least to capture one of these bugs and see it, take it somewhere to be identified, see what kills them.
Also I never get bit or crawled on by them. Is there anything a susceptible person can take that will cause their "taste" to the insect to taste as bad as the people they stay off of?
ANY HELP will be greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance
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