Help! Unfamiliar pest

[wortschmiedin]

 I have been stung or bitten for the third time IN my house by a tinie tiny little ant like thingie. It was smaller than most ants I see and their bites/stings hurt badly, I have a swollen area around that bite for a very very long  time it hurts. sigh HELP?

Comments

[dragonmyst]

We have those here in OK, they are muchly annoying though I've never had the bites I've recieved swell up. I suggest going to Home Depot or Lowes or a hardware store and ask about the ants in the pesticides dept.

{{hugs}}

You also might want to see a doctor about the swelling and take a few of the ants in a small jar to show.

[stitchwhich]

This might help you identify it http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/ig099 . I hope. If you're not taking an antihistimine, you should - but you might want to check with your doctor, too, and see if you can bring one of the tiny monsters in with you so the doctor can identify it. If you are swelling up like that, you're either developing an allergy to the bite or the litle monster is venomous.

Most of us in Maryland/Virginia end up subscribing to an insect-killing service such as "terminex" or some other company, just for this reason. :(

[albathetross]

Fire ant? They're itty bitty and their bites sting a tiny bit, although they won't make you swell up unless you're allergic.

(I stood on a fire ant hill for two full minutes once in Florida before realizing why my leg had gone all pins-and-needles.)

[wortschmiedin]

thanks for telling me it is just one form of ant or other. I am used to reacting with severe itching when stung or bitten, as a child that was always an issue, but I got used to the stuff at home. Here new poison new game i supose. Hate myself but will probably go and get ant poison. Can't have em in the house. (and frankly don#t want them in my produce to the extent that the have been showing up. We seem to have least 3 varieties in my garden, sigh. Thanks guys!