I've had three since June, the last just two days ago.
I don't notice the initial bite, and it takes hours to start itching, but I have to assume they occur while I'm sleeping. There's no real pain, but they start itching a lot for up to a week. Scratching around them lightly reveals a large (2 in dia) swollen and firm patch of skin around the bite, which has two clearly discernable but small dark red blisters, about 2mm apart. The swolen area tends to be horizontal (around the leg, around the ankle, etc.) more than vertical, leading me to believe it's some sort of poison that gets spread by gravity while I'm asleep. After a few days, the two blisters turn form almost a ringed shape (dark red/purple) about .7-1 cm in dia, with little swelling in the center. Swelling and itching gradually decrease, but are still noticable if the area is scratched up to several (3-4) weeks later. Both previous bites ended up scabbing over mildly about a month after the bite. There's no significant necrosis besides a layer or two of skin immediately surrounding the bite during scabbing, but it's extremely annoying as it itches (I tried aveeno last night - it works for maybe 15 minutes, then the itching comes back gradually) and takes a long time to heal. They haven't appeared infected - though the partial ring turns dark red/purple after a couple weeks, there's never any noticable oozing or pus.
Any ideas? A couple months ago I found what reasonably resembled tegenaria aggrestis, but given the location/climate and lack of necrosis or pain, I'm writing off any tegenaria, loxosceles, or latrodectus. Any ideas what the critter is? There's no noticable systemic reaction, even this time (3rd encounter), and I don't recall ever having this kind of bite before June, so I doubt it's an allergic reaction.
I don't notice the initial bite, and it takes hours to start itching, but I have to assume they occur while I'm sleeping. There's no real pain, but they start itching a lot for up to a week. Scratching around them lightly reveals a large (2 in dia) swollen and firm patch of skin around the bite, which has two clearly discernable but small dark red blisters, about 2mm apart. The swolen area tends to be horizontal (around the leg, around the ankle, etc.) more than vertical, leading me to believe it's some sort of poison that gets spread by gravity while I'm asleep. After a few days, the two blisters turn form almost a ringed shape (dark red/purple) about .7-1 cm in dia, with little swelling in the center. Swelling and itching gradually decrease, but are still noticable if the area is scratched up to several (3-4) weeks later. Both previous bites ended up scabbing over mildly about a month after the bite. There's no significant necrosis besides a layer or two of skin immediately surrounding the bite during scabbing, but it's extremely annoying as it itches (I tried aveeno last night - it works for maybe 15 minutes, then the itching comes back gradually) and takes a long time to heal. They haven't appeared infected - though the partial ring turns dark red/purple after a couple weeks, there's never any noticable oozing or pus.
Any ideas? A couple months ago I found what reasonably resembled tegenaria aggrestis, but given the location/climate and lack of necrosis or pain, I'm writing off any tegenaria, loxosceles, or latrodectus. Any ideas what the critter is? There's no noticable systemic reaction, even this time (3rd encounter), and I don't recall ever having this kind of bite before June, so I doubt it's an allergic reaction.
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