A robin built a birdnest on the outdoor light fixture next to our garage. We could see the nest from the living room and we were quite delighted when the birds hatched and grew bigger and bigger. One of the babies fell out one day and since I had read that it's ok to pick a baby up and replace it in the nest, I did. A moment after I placed him back in the nest, I noticed that I had about 10 zillion little bugs crawling up my arm. I quickly knocked them off and thought, "that was weird," but I thought nothing else about it.
The birds fledged and about the same day, I started getting these horribly itchy welts all over my body. Now I have about 25. This evening out of curiosity, I got on the ladder to look inside the nest. To my horror, the nest was seething with mites. I sprayed my arms and legs with bug spray, got a ziplock bag and took the nest down. Then I started reading and I found out mites can infest houses. I believe that's what's happening here. The weird thing is that I'm the only one who seems to be affected. There are two kids and my hubby as well as three pets. Nobody else is getting the bites. Now I feel like my skin is just crawling
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Is there anything I can do about the mites that I'm now sure are multiplying inside my house??? My sheets are in a HOT wash and tomorrow I'm buying insecticide, but I hate using chemicals. Anybody have any suggestions?
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Bird Mite infestation - HELP!!!!!!!!
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