Trlyblst & others getting bug ID ed.? Ugh! Please read.

[Guest guest]

Everyone, I have a question I don't understand. Of all the pest control people

here in San

Diego that have had problems with bird mites, they can see the tiny specks, they

treat it

with the pyrethrins, and then they are gone.

Why?

If many of us have the similar circumstances of nests nearby, etc, why can't our

birdmites

be killed the same way, or even be seen?

And after IDing it, for instance, Trlyblest, what is done after that? Have you

told a pest

control person about it? Like ones in our area, have they had an easy time

getting rid of

them, and are able to see them? Or, in everyone's area of living, have they not

even heard

of birdmites invading the home? Most of our pest control companies here have

only dealt

with 3 to 8 incidents within their time of their company's existence. So

although many say

it is rare, it happens and is taken care of immediately.

Trlyblest, you said you could only see the G Gallanae (sp?) under 400 mag. Did

it only

look like a black speck under 200 mag? Our Health Control Dept. here could only

had a

magnification of about 130, and said he can see birdmites easily under this

magnification.

I DON'T UNDERSTAND!

Everyone, please help me on this subject.

By the way, my neighbor has a condo two doors down from me and I had called our

Home

Owners Association about removing a vacant nest above her windows in the eaves

of the

roof. The bird left about a week ago, and she has been itching ever since. Her

clothes itch

her, and she wakes up with small bumps on her shins and legs and arms. They

cant

remove the nest till next week and I have asked that they tell us if there are

birdmites in

them. The man who removed all three of ours said there were none. He said he

had

removed many with birdmites in them and have gotten them on his arm/hand and

just

washes them off.

Why does it seem to be not big deal for the society, and yet many of us are

dealing with

this unidentified mystery? Do you think it is something else? A different

mite?