What the Hell Bit Me?

[Jack_Batty]

I get mosquito bites often, as I’m sure everyone else does. Minor annoyances. But something got me on the underside of my forearm and it itches like crazy!!! The bump is slightly raised, pink, and about the size of a dime. The area around it was red for awhile but eventually went away. It’s not only the bump that itches, but the skin around it for about 1 1/2 inches. I noticed it when I woke up this morning. I don’t know if it happened in my sleep or when I was out on the veranda having cocktails last night. Any ideas? I want to take any necessary precautions to avoid getting bit by it again. I’m kinda miserable.

[NOKYAI]

My guess would be an ant!

[lindosfan1]

No it is a spider.

[Nereus]

What Bit Me? Spot These 11 Bug Bites

https://www.everydayhealth.com/skin-and ... bites.aspx

[Jack_Batty]

What Bit Me? Spot These 11 Bug Bites

https://www.everydayhealth.com/skin-and ... bites.aspx

That very first photo, of the mosquito bite on the woman’s stomach, looks like my bite. But I get mosquito bites often and they never usually look that large and raised. Maybe I was bitten by some type of strain that I’m allergic to, but just have been fortunate enough to have never encountered. Well, anyways, I’m much better now. Thanks for the information.

[hhinner]

You may well be right. When we lived in Bangkok I eventually stopped noticing mosquito bites. But then we'd go on a holiday somewhere else in Thailand, quite often to Hua Hin, and I would get bites like that woman's. We eventually moved here and I quickly stopped getting bites that swelled like that. There are plenty other things that bite and sting though.

[Bamboo Grove]

Different types of mosquitoes cause different kind of swellings and itching. I noticed that years ago when I went to live in Chiang Mai. I had gotten used to the Hua Hin and Bangkok types, they hardly bothered me at all. However, their northern sisters caused me a lot of itching and the swellings remained for days.