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My legs were a feast for at least one bug or an entire family. I'm pretty sure I didn't get them outside, but rather I was eaten alive overnight. I count five bits on my left calf, nine on my left thigh, five on my left calf, and seven on my right thigh. I already changed my sheets, and I put the comforter in the wash, but I'm not sure this is going to be enough. The bites are pretty big too, nickel/dime sized. Anyone else have experience with this?

It may be chiggers not bed bugs. Bed bugs would bite on successive days, not just once, and the bites would be located all over your body. Chiggers would be more likely to be on your legs. If it is bed bugs, just changing/washing your bedding may not be enough to get rid of them. You may have to disinfect your mattress or replace it.

Wait, this isn't another small boobs thread?

At least they spared your right calf.

G. Keenan wrote:Wait, this isn't another small boobs thread?

Well, if I scratched at them they'd resemble small boobs.

Thanks for that T-Beach, I'll keep that in mind. I'll keep an eye out tomorrow morning, although I'm not sure if I should hope they tear my torso to pieces tonight...

clement wrote:At least they spared your right calf.

Would you believe my having two left calves is a genetic malformation over a typo?

if it's chiggers, put clear fingernail polish on the bites, it suficates them and relieves the itch...

It should be pretty easy to figure out which insect bit you. Where you walking around through tall grass that day? If not, then it's probably bed bugs. Were you sleeping in your own bed? If it's your own bed but you've never noticed them before it would be strange to have suddenly gotten bed bugs, but I guess there's a first time for everything.

Btw, this happened to be once. Exact same kind of bites you describe, and only on my legs, not my torso. I'd slept in a pretty ratty motel in nowheresville Illinois and noticed them the next morning. The problem was that I'd also been walking around in tall grass that afternoon so I couldn't be sure of the culprit.

G. Keenan wrote:Btw, this happened to be once. Exact same kind of bites you describe, and only on my legs, not my torso. I'd slept in a pretty ratty motel in nowheresville Illinois and noticed them the next morning. The problem was that I'd also been walking around in tall grass that afternoon so I couldn't be sure of the culprit.

Ha ha. Sorry about that.

I asked the lady at the first motel what was cheap, and she mentioned the Super 8, but said that we should avoid it because it was owned by Indians and was therefor "not clean". Figuring this was just good old-fashioned bigotry, I chose to stay there anyway, and this was the result.

Arthur Dent wrote:

G. Keenan wrote:Btw, this happened to be once. Exact same kind of bites you describe, and only on my legs, not my torso. I'd slept in a pretty ratty motel in nowheresville Illinois and noticed them the next morning. The problem was that I'd also been walking around in tall grass that afternoon so I couldn't be sure of the culprit.

Ha ha. Sorry about that.

I asked the lady at the first motel what was cheap, and she mentioned the Super 8, but said that we should avoid it because it was owned by Indians and was therefor "not clean". Figuring this was just good old-fashioned bigotry, I chose to stay there anyway, and this was the result.

No worries. That was a pretty hilarious episode all in all. Two flat tires within 5 minutes is unheard of. Then having to walk through overgrown medians just to get to a Pizza Hut because that was the only thing open and seeing awkward townie kids on a date and others hanging in the parking lot made made me thank God that I didn't live in that town.