What is this bug

Gork

My girlfriend and I are getting devoured by something in our apartment. The exterminator just visited and ruled out bed bugs. After his visit we found this

What is it?

Hahnsoo1

@Arch The bug-signal!

see317

That looks very tick-like to me. Granted, I'm not Arch or @BugBoy , but that'd be my guess.
Granted, when a tick's munching on you, you generally know because the greedy little bastards don't stop munching until they swell up.

How big is it?
Also, where do you live, roughly?

Gork

Very small. Like the head of a wall brad. We live in D.C.

We do have a dog that has been treated for ticks, so it could have fallen off him while we were brushing him.

BugBoy

Yup, looks like a tick of some variety to me.

Gork

Nuts. Thanks guys.

Arch

Note- it's unlikely you have a tick infestation of any kind. It most likely came from the dog.

If you live in DC you're probably getting eaten by mosquitoes. Tell me, are most of the bites on wrists, ankles, and feet?

Gork

Wrists, forearms, feet, calves, thighs, butt, back, one on the face.

bowen

how exactly did he rule out bedbugs

Gork

He looked for them. It was an Orkin guy, so presumably he knew what he was doing, but I wasn't here for his inspection.

My girlfriend says he spent 20 minutes looking at the box spring.

bowen

I would hope anyways.

the issue with bedbugs is they hide during the day in places like electrical outlets, in the walls themselves, and anywhere that you can fit them, and like all professions sometimes people are lazy or half ass it.

you've got the earmarks of a bedbug infestation (they like the extremities, feet in particular)

however

you've got a tick there

and you could just have fleas

but also they could be mosquito bites

got a picture of the bite marks?

Gork

Calf.

bowen

that does look like a mosquito bite more than bedbug, so, good news I suppose

Gork

This is one vicious ass mosquito. I've heard of tiger mosquitoes, but this guy is just apeshit.

bowen

I dunno if it's just mosquitoes, that's strange, hopefully arch or bugboy can be more help!

Arch

It's probably just mosquitoes. There's a lot of different species around DC, if you can catch one in the act I'd be able to tell you more.

Those bites don't look like bedbug bites at all.

Xaquin

You should see what I look like with a mosquito bite =/

Not red, but a a raised puffy area the size of a nickel to a quarter depending, I guess, on the type or size of the mosquito

Gork

Well, the exterminator found ticks, so he treated us for them, fleas and carpet beetles. Spent most of the evening doing laundry.