livingwithcritters: what are burrow fiber mites?

[Guest guest]

Hi jill (for those ppl new, she's LWC),

I was looking at the pics you uploaded like these:

http://good-times.webshots.com/photo/2129830550103193234IGGahl

Let me give you a bit of background story.

Yesterday, I took a shower and went out... within 45 min, i was

getting incredible crawlies on my arms and face. It never happened

to me this bad. Usually when I take a shower, put on fresh non-

contaminated clothes, and head out, unless I put myself in a

contaminated env (i.e., car, which I didn't ride), I'm usually good

for the whole day.

Then I'm reading that these mites live INSIDE of us and I was

fearful that perhaps my body's a host and these things were coming

out. I kept looking at my arms and the thing I noticed was that

there were these white specks here and there... I have not seen

these before.

When I got home, I looked under my 30x magnifier and they all looked

like long oval white fiber/lint... but there were many of them so I

had wondered whether they were bugs. But then I see your photo

today... what ARE these things? And the way they look, they don't

look like mites at all!

-kihun

[Guest guest]

They don't look like mites on the outside, but if you gently " tease "

the cocoon open, you will find a mite inside. Or at least that was

our experience...

Trly

>

> Hi jill (for those ppl new, she's LWC),

>

> I was looking at the pics you uploaded like these:

> http://good-times.webshots.com/photo/2129830550103193234IGGahl

> Let me give you a bit of background story.

>

> Yesterday, I took a shower and went out... within 45 min, i was

> getting incredible crawlies on my arms and face. It never happened

> to me this bad. Usually when I take a shower, put on fresh non-

> contaminated clothes, and head out, unless I put myself in a

> contaminated env (i.e., car, which I didn't ride), I'm usually good

> for the whole day.

>

> Then I'm reading that these mites live INSIDE of us and I was

> fearful that perhaps my body's a host and these things were coming

> out. I kept looking at my arms and the thing I noticed was that

> there were these white specks here and there... I have not seen

> these before.

>

> When I got home, I looked under my 30x magnifier and they all

looked

> like long oval white fiber/lint... but there were many of them so I

> had wondered whether they were bugs. But then I see your photo

> today... what ARE these things? And the way they look, they don't

> look like mites at all!

>

> -kihun

>

[Guest guest]

Hi, all, I have a file called " FIBER MITES.doc up at my files

group, " critterfiles " --however, I definitely don't think I have this

down by any means, in fact based on what trly said here and other

things I have figured out in the past few days...

http://tech./group/critterfiles/

katiejill (LWC/livingwithcritters)

> >

> > Hi jill (for those ppl new, she's LWC),

> >

> > I was looking at the pics you uploaded like these:

> > http://good-times.webshots.com/photo/2129830550103193234IGGahl

> > Let me give you a bit of background story.

> >

> > Yesterday, I took a shower and went out... within 45 min, i was

> > getting incredible crawlies on my arms and face. It never

happened

> > to me this bad. Usually when I take a shower, put on fresh non-

> > contaminated clothes, and head out, unless I put myself in a

> > contaminated env (i.e., car, which I didn't ride), I'm usually

good

> > for the whole day.

> >

> > Then I'm reading that these mites live INSIDE of us and I was

> > fearful that perhaps my body's a host and these things were

coming

> > out. I kept looking at my arms and the thing I noticed was that

> > there were these white specks here and there... I have not seen

> > these before.

> >

> > When I got home, I looked under my 30x magnifier and they all

> looked

> > like long oval white fiber/lint... but there were many of them so

I

> > had wondered whether they were bugs. But then I see your photo

> > today... what ARE these things? And the way they look, they

don't

> > look like mites at all!

> >

> > -kihun

> >

>