My RV has got little, biting black bugs. They are not fleas or ticks, but they bite like them. I asked a pet shop owner what he would do. He suggested that I try the original, yellow Listerine. He uses it at his pet shop to kill mites, fleas and ticks. I did, and it works!
I put some in a spray bottle to spray around the RV, on the dog, and on us. Yellow Listerine does not stain fabric nor is it harmful to humans and pets. One has to keep using it for a while because the eggs left hatch into nymphs. They bite too, but the yellow Listerine does kill them all.
Source: Petter Patter Pets
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I felt such relief when I found this forum yesterday (7/29/15) and realized I was NOT crazy nor alone because so many others were posting the exact same thing. I have suffered for YEARS with these almost invisible pests biting the crap out of me day and night, but like the others, I get a little relief during the winter months but they still existed. After reading this Listerine post, I went straight to the store and bought some. I came home, stripped my bedding and saturated the mattress, misted the pillows, and washed the blankets and sheets. After I put the sheets back on, I sprayed them as well. I even took a washcloth sprayed with listerine and wiped down my body. When I am laying in bed, my hairline around my neck and ears would light me up itching so I even rubbed listerine into my scalp and hairline.
I have been suffering from these tiny biting pest for 8mths.. Everyone thinks I'm crazy but I know every day and night these things are eating me alive. What makes it so bad is you can not see them just the irritating bits and they only attack ME!!!
I wish the store was open right now. Tomorrow I will buy it. The bug's starts out as a white very sticky cobweb very hard to remove using a 22.5 horsepower vacuum had to pry the web off. The web dissolves to white flakes, I again vacuumed but they kept coming back, whats biting me? I couldn't figure it out but "wow" they hurt. Then they turn brown and I guess one flake can produce a lot of tiny brown flake's that bites, looks like a very tiny piece of leaf I'll wipe but they kept coming back. Then I took three eye piece's of a telescope and duck tape using the two to see these critter's. My girlfriend said it looked like a piece of brown food "in the eye piece". The white flakes relocates or they turn to stage 2 Tiny brown flakes then they relocate and sets up a new home else where, where it set's up a new web. Stage three looks like yellowish grass pieces about 1/3 cm long worm, they don't move or so it seems.
I just raced over to Walgreens to buy some and have soaked myself in it. I have eczema so I can't always tell what is a bite and what is just me being itchy. But I don't feel as much like I've got bugs crawling all over me now.
I have no idea what these things are. I saw one very tiny one moving across my phone screen yesterday that was too small to even see, just saw that something was moving. Then an hour ago, I found a teeny tiny round black beetle looking bug on an article of clothing. No signs of bedbugs anywhere. This one bug was a little under half the size of a flea. The bites I get don't come with a rash like bed bug bites seem to. And this one didn't jump like fleas.
I'm really hoping there spite of crawling is real and not just in my head. I've been so stressed about these bugs and a possible infestation. My home feels filthy. I haven't relaxed in days. I just want to be able to rest without being bitten up.
Have had this problem to for three years now and everyone keeps saying they are midges as we live in far north Queensland. No they are not. Have got some off my body and they are now floating in mentholated spirits and was going to march them to the Doctor and ask for a referral to the tropical health dept which I was advised to do by CSIRO. However, going to get Listerine right now and do your recommendation.
Thank you, I feel something and see that it's a tiny tiny bug. They are eating me alive
I have just recovered from this bug problem. They were tightly against my scalp. I had them on the back of my knees, my feet, waist and arms. They were crawling all over me and they made a beeline for my hands especially in between my fingers. They were small either black flecks , slithers of wood shaped or round. I bought a microscope and they were really colourful, golden or they looked like lumps of fuzzy hair. They really sting and send your skin into being really itchy until you remove them. I thought I had Morgellons Disease but I resigned myself to get rid of them. I bought a pair of crocks and smothered my feet in Coconut Oil. I kept applying the coconut oil 3 times a day and I could walk around with it on my feet wearing the crocks. Some were living at the side and in between my little toe. Literally, there were over a hundred of these things coming out from my feet. I kept doing this until there were no more. The plastic heat from the crocks and cocunut oil kills them all. I smothered my body from head to toe in coconut oil. I bought an exfoliating peel from The Body Shop named Vitamin C Glow Revealing Liquid Peel. This was amazing and takes the top layer of skin off you totally painless. This dealt with the really crusty scabby areas on my body and dissolved the scabs. You must get a hard skin remover to get rid of the hard skin on your feet. This is important as these mites thrive in hard skin. I bought a scraper for my feet. Basically it is an implement with a razor blade in it, a large razor for your feet. This gets rid of all of the hard skin on your feet. Hair dry your hair for 20 minutes every day as the mites leave your hair and start to make their way down your back then you can brush them off in the shower. Maintain your skin and hair with oil. Put a thin layer of scented or coconut oil all over you every day. At night put a thin layer through your hair. I like to use the coconut oil that is called Coco Loco from Aldi that is actually a cooking oil. It sets solid and you can control how much you use. Iron the seams of your clothes every day before you use them as these things get trapped in your clothes. Shake your clothes in the shower (with water switched off) every day to get rid of the mites. The mites will fall out & you just wash them away. I am now itch free and comfortable in my own skin and it is lovely. Good luck, you will get rid of these things. Looking back I now think it is mites living in old skin on your body. Make sure you exfoliate all of your body every day. Use a brush or rough cloth as it will get the old skin off you. It took me a year and a half to work this all out. Hopefully, my ideas will help you recover. X
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