Post by jo92 on Jan 26, 2022 8:35:16 GMT -8
Hello! I moved into a new house a month ago that we completely renovated prior to that. We knocked everything down to the brick, new installations and everything. We knocked down dome walls and put up drywall. The house has 2 floors and we barely have any furniture in it. Just a bed, a sofa, a table with chairs and one wardrobe. We don't even have a kitchen yet.
We live in continental Europe and the temp. outside has been betweem -8 and 8. The humidity in the house while the renovations were ongoing was very high, over 70%, but since we moved in and turned on the heating it's been about 35%.
Since we moved in, I've been seeing two types of bugs on the walls.
1. Reddish worm-like bugs
The first one I am more worried about as I saw 6 of them (over a span of 3 weeks, always just one alone, not in grouped together) and have no idea what they are. The first one I saw was on the headboard of the new bed so I thought it came from the bed. The second one was on the wall of the bedroom which is upstairs. However, the other four were on random hallway walls downstairs. The hallway has nothing in it except the stairs. They were both on normal brick walls and on drywall walls.
They are very small, less than half a cm, appear red with a black head, they are the same width all over. They move at medium speed. They seem to have a few legs on each side, maybe 3 short ones. They are easy to squish and they leave a reddish mark when squished.
I remember seeing bugs like that a couple of years ago in an apartment we stayed in, googling them and finding nothing, just like now. Nothing quite matches the description. I have a phobia of bugs which is why I remember seeing it before.
Pics:
postimg.cc/WdHk9dxD
postimg.cc/xqpNjJT6
postimg.cc/644WpQYP (taken with a flash)
2. Very pale tiiiiny bugs
I saw about 3 of these since moving in, also on walls. They are veeeeery hard to spot as they are tiny and beige colored, they look like dust initially. I only see them because I am checking the walls constantly because of the other bug. They move relatively fast. I always see just one on random wall. You can see on the picture just how small they are because they are next to a random tiny piece of fluff. I am pretty sure these are booklice that came in with some construction material and stayed because of high moisture. If they are booklice, I shouldn't be too worried about it, right? Will they go away once everything is dried out? We rushed the move and renovated everything in 6 months so it didn't have time to properly dry out.
Pics:
postimg.cc/mtVXgS10
postimg.cc/vcSKvz85
Please help me identify the bugs. I am pregnant, soon to give birth and I am absolutely terrifed of having an infestation of something dangerous in a house we barely moved in and also invested a lot of money into.
Thanks in advance!
We live in continental Europe and the temp. outside has been betweem -8 and 8. The humidity in the house while the renovations were ongoing was very high, over 70%, but since we moved in and turned on the heating it's been about 35%.
Since we moved in, I've been seeing two types of bugs on the walls.
1. Reddish worm-like bugs
The first one I am more worried about as I saw 6 of them (over a span of 3 weeks, always just one alone, not in grouped together) and have no idea what they are. The first one I saw was on the headboard of the new bed so I thought it came from the bed. The second one was on the wall of the bedroom which is upstairs. However, the other four were on random hallway walls downstairs. The hallway has nothing in it except the stairs. They were both on normal brick walls and on drywall walls.
They are very small, less than half a cm, appear red with a black head, they are the same width all over. They move at medium speed. They seem to have a few legs on each side, maybe 3 short ones. They are easy to squish and they leave a reddish mark when squished.
I remember seeing bugs like that a couple of years ago in an apartment we stayed in, googling them and finding nothing, just like now. Nothing quite matches the description. I have a phobia of bugs which is why I remember seeing it before.
Pics:
postimg.cc/WdHk9dxD
postimg.cc/xqpNjJT6
postimg.cc/644WpQYP (taken with a flash)
2. Very pale tiiiiny bugs
I saw about 3 of these since moving in, also on walls. They are veeeeery hard to spot as they are tiny and beige colored, they look like dust initially. I only see them because I am checking the walls constantly because of the other bug. They move relatively fast. I always see just one on random wall. You can see on the picture just how small they are because they are next to a random tiny piece of fluff. I am pretty sure these are booklice that came in with some construction material and stayed because of high moisture. If they are booklice, I shouldn't be too worried about it, right? Will they go away once everything is dried out? We rushed the move and renovated everything in 6 months so it didn't have time to properly dry out.
Pics:
postimg.cc/mtVXgS10
postimg.cc/vcSKvz85
Please help me identify the bugs. I am pregnant, soon to give birth and I am absolutely terrifed of having an infestation of something dangerous in a house we barely moved in and also invested a lot of money into.
Thanks in advance!
