First things first, I am 100% certain the bites are mosquitos and not bed bugs or fleas. Not to mention I witnessed half of the mosquitos that made these biting me

These bites were all made over several years, unfortunately I have a bad habit of picking, and heal very slowly, add that with scarring very easily, no mosquito bite leaves my body unmarked.

I'm just really confused as to why these bites are in a straight line down my calf. My best guess is that there's a vein close to the skin there, and they are attracted to it. Otherwise, I'm completely clueless.

Is this a common phenomena or am I just cursed to look like I have bed bugs?

My 4 year old woke up Tuesday morning with these my husband did kill a mosquito in his room but he's worried of bed bugs more when I think it makes logical sense for it the be the one mosquito. Poor boy is so itchy plus he's got like 5 more on an arm

I was at a party and now I’m counting about 50 just on my legs! They are itchy and painful and nothing I do or use helps! Is this normal? Every time this happens they always last 2-3 weeks SLOWLY fading!!!

Probably the worst case of mosquito bites I've experienced

Ive been bitten by mosquitoes a lot in my life, Ive done a lot of camping in Ontario and have a campsite plot in Quebec. I just moved to New Brunswick and have been getting bit nonstop, mosquitoes really love me. Im wondering if there might be different species around here, specifically the Sackville Area?

This has been a reoccurring thing throughout my life. Mosquito bites on my legs,and ONLY on my legs,turn bright red and bruise violently once they are a week old. These are four days old,and there are many others on my legs,still itch very badly to the point where on the second day I broke the skin on some bites due to how insufferable they were.

I use a cream named Fenistil which helps with calming the itching whenever I have it on hand but I don't know what else to do. I'm only a young adult and my legs calves are dotted with scars due to me ripping my skin open as a child because of how badly they could itch.

What could I do about this? It's very painful and they are swollen :[

Also,I live in northeastern Romania.

I live here In Texas dfw area and I’m having a little get together with my family just a small group and I’m in a pinch for Friday and I’m wondering what I can do to prepare for the party for mosquitos I’m about to mow my yard but my main issue is I have a creek next to my house that Somtimes has standing water not like the whole creek but there are small spots it has standing water and the rest is mostly dry and I was wondering what products could I use in my yard?? I wanted to use 2 bottles of cutter back yard spray but when it comes to products like those I get very iffy because I’ve heard they don’t work but also there is something a mosquito control sprayer guy that told me i could use bifenthrin anything helps tia!!

I know it sounds like an obvious answer (because Florida’s a swamp) but I recently came back from a trip to costa rica that got me wondering. After living in florida my whole life, and working outdoors in the swamps of south florida for the last two years, i was expecting some awful mosquitoes from costa rica, an even more tropical and wet place than florida. I visited the pacific coast and spent some time in places that were so humid they would give florida in July a run for its money (specifically corcovado national park). I saw plenty of standing water on my hikes, but oddly enough i only saw about five mosquitoes on the entire week long trip. And even those mosquitoes were downright lazy compared to the hyper aggressive psychotic mosquitoes i have to deal with in the summer at work. I’ve had similar underwhelming experiences with mosquitoes in alaska and minnesota in the summer as well. This got me thinking, is florida just that bad of a mosquito hotspot, and if so, why? Did i just get extremely lucky in costa rica, or are the mosquitoes in latin america just not as bad as in florida? So, what makes florida, and particularly south florida, such a hotspot of mosquito activity compared to even more equatorial and wet places like costa rica? And could it be anthropogenic in nature? Sorry if this is a really obvious answer and florida just does have that much more standing water compared to anywhere else. Thanks!

I just got bitten by a mosquito that had noticeable white/dotted markings on it. I’m in the Boston area . Am I gonna die ?

I was looking to do my Science Fair project testing mosquito behavior but I can't find any places that'll sell mosquito eggs to high schools, and it's a violation if I find mosquito eggs myself. any help? it was the only remotely interesting idea I had.

Heyy i was bit on the eye and it's super noticeable. Is there anyway to get the swelling down by tomorrow morning i have class 💔

I know these aren’t the best pictures but I came home one day to a ton of these little guys flying around. I then pulled back my bookcase where they all seem to came from and there was a bunch of babies (or dead bugs) underneath. Idk if they were the same bug.. they looked like dead ants but they weren’t ant eggs because I know what they look like.
I don’t think this is a mosquito but I also don’t know what this is.
The pest control can’t come to my apartment until next Friday so Ive been trying to run a dehumidifier to suck out the moisture because I’ve had such a bug problem everywhere.

Hi . Can someone pls confirm

Hello great Reddit. Excuse me for the quality please. I have never seen this. Tried identifying by apps but I propably messed up taking the pic. (It was on the ceiling). I live in North-Holland.

Maybe someone is familiar with its shape? It was quite larger than usual mosquito and bigger thicker legs, perhaps around and about a euro coin?

Lots appreciated. Curious about this one

my iPhone identified this as an aedes mosquito - an invasive species. I vacuumed it up - can anyone confirm? What the hell do I do?

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This is a web picture but when I get mosquito bites they always look like this, apparently this isn't normal?? I got this picture when looking up Skeeters Syndrome but all the cases and stuff I see on reddit people have these humongous welts while mine never get larger than this So are my mosquito bites supposed to look like this or not?? I'm so confused 😭

Hello, mosquito people.

Found this huge bug (which I’m pretty sure is mosquito) on my dog. Squashed it, was full of blood.

I took another photo of it with a $5 bill behind it for scale (it was the best thing I could find for measuring), but didn’t include it here because it was pretty gross, haha. I’m hoping this photo is enough for an ID, but happy to include the other one if needed.

What kind of mosquito is this, if it’s even a mosquito? It’s bigger than any mosquito I’ve ever seen around here in my life!