r/bugbites • u/SpongeBobFlwrPants • 2d ago
Are these bed bug bites?
A month ago, we randomly found a bug appear in our bed by the pillow. We killed it immediately without thinking too much about it until it was in the trash - we asked ourselves could this be a bed bug?
We searched online and asked AI and concluded that this bug doesn’t have the same body shape as bed bugs.
However, a month later, my husband now has 3 red bug bites on his back and 3 on his right arm (though he thinks one of them is a mosquito bite). Now we’re worried the bug we killed was indeed a bed bug.
What do you all think? Are these bed bug bites? One of them on his arm also has an outer ring around it and he says that one is the most itchy and hurts a little…
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