What kind of bugs can get on your bed other than bedbugs and fleas?

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Question by Livin Life:
What kind of bugs can get on your bed other than bedbugs and fleas?

I noticed really little tiny bugs on my sheets the other night. They look like bugs you would find on a plant.
My husband is a landscaper so I blamed him and said he shouldn’t put his dirty work clothes on the bed. He said that he didn’t.
So I washed all the bedding in hot water and bleach and they showed up again….like quite a few of them again. We have a foam mattress topper.
I looked in the crevices and corners of the mattress itself for more bugs but cannot find them anywhere other than on top of the sheets.
They do not look like the pictures of bedbugs that I see, not even the nymphs, but what do I know.
They definitely are NOT fleas. Dust mites?…I dunno, doesn’t look like the pics of those either. They are super small and don’t appear flat and oval like bedbugs, but what the heck else could they be???
A couple of extra points: We have a fan above our bed?…relative, who knows?
Our bed is under our window…..dogs are on that side of the house.
Mattress foam topper, fairly new, less than a year.
I do not feel like I am getting bites, but these little boogers are so small, so who knows.
Any help/suggestions are appreciated.
Thanks!
yes, my hubby is faithful…we don’t have crabs, we don’t itch, I saw my hair dresser today and she didn’t say I had (head) lice. I don’t find them on my body. They are SUPER SMALL. I put 2 of them in a little plastic baggie, but I don’t know any entomologists to take them to to evaluate :p
I’d say there are maybe 3-10 I see at a time, approx 1-2mm in length. little antenna’s that wiggle around, almost colorless, actually a little bit of color, but more or less like a beige. I don’t see any “rust” color looking spots on the white sheets.
They look harmless, but it’s still creepy and I don’t like to share my bed!

Best answer:

Answer by CHAR L
I am in the Medical Field

Sounds like they may be head or body lice.. Do you or he itch??

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jennifersimpson422 March 29, 2011 at 9:39 pm

I can’t really answer your question but I can tell you they are not dust mites. They are way to small to be seen. I hope you figure it out.

They could be fruit flys…come to think of it. It your hubby works out in the field, some could have come home with him, or the eggs anyways, and gotten into the foam. I would throw out the foam mattress. They don’t bite either.

EDIT: Ok, Matt…that is a surprise, but it makes sense. Do you know how she could go about getting these bugs tested or taken in to be looked at? Where? A hospital??? A reptile store(snakes get certain bugs on them if not properly cared for). That is a blow, so I hope you are wrong, but can you elaborate?

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Matt m March 29, 2011 at 10:18 pm

hmmmm, is your husband a faithful man? first thing that came to mind other than mites, was scabies.. They live on the skin and transfer to anythingincluding clothes / sheets etc.. Which is why hotels sometimes distribute the little bugs cuz they dont change or wash the sheets

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Cyn March 29, 2011 at 11:16 pm

maybe carpet beetles. they’re small, ovalish can be tan, brown or black and have a squiggly design on their back like ~ that all the way down.

Check to see if any of your cloths (like winter jackets in a dark closet) have tiny worms on them about this big —- or you might see the sheded skin of the worm, it’ll be a very light yellow.

If that’s what you have, carpet beetles, they’re attracted to cloths that have human sweat/B.O. on them. The worms eat your cloths like moths, then they turn into beetles.

I had them because I stored winter coats in closet without cleaning them. I had to clean everything, store stuff with moth balls. They’re a pain because the beetles like couches and beds(to hang out on I guess). You might even see one fly around a lamp, I noticed they did that sporadically when they were near death.

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Zac March 29, 2011 at 11:41 pm

Bed bug outbreak, it’s on yahoo news. freakish outbreak so I’ve heard….

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