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Someone else commented but here’s a link kissing bugs they are apparently very common bugs but I’ve never heard of them. Some of the bites look like that, I’d get a new tent
Kissing bugs are much more common in the south but there are sightings all over the US. OP said they were in Provo, UT and there have been recorded sighting there. There's many bugs that also live there that can be easily confused, like western conifer seed bugs, masked hunter bugs, and wheel bugs, so it's hard to tell for sure if a sighting is Triatominae or not. I would definitely see a doctor if I was Op and also got a fever or headache or the itching or swelling gets worse.
People miss identify wheel bugs for kissing bugs? Im far from an expert and they seem very distinct to me.
North American Wheel Bugs (Arilus Crisatus) have a similar looking profile when looking from above, and it also doesn't help that they are in a family of bugs called the "assassin bugs" which have some species that are able to spread Chagas disease like the kissing bugs. While you can clearly see differences if you look long enough, if you're not an entomologist and just looking up a bug by what you saw briefly in the wild, it's easy to confuse them.
North American Wheel Bug: https://carnegiemnh.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/tumblr_inline_oqtxtuBlpA1tiol9c_540.jpg
Kissing Bugs that are native to the US (t. sanguisuga, t. gerstaeckeri, and t. protracta from left to right) https://kissingbug.tamu.edu/images/ThreeBugs.jpg
OK, I can see now that you showed the top-down view. It's interesting how little the "wheel" shows up from above.
Gotta look for the proboscis to see if you got a kissing bug....
Don't other assassin bugs have the same feature?
I'm not sure if any of the other ones do but we had a kissing bug scare and they do indeed have a little tube between their antenna where the other bugs do not. You can even see it in the linked photos above.
That is true. It's interesting in the natural world how many things mimic other more dangerous types of the same critters. Just saw a video with a seemingly very dangerous snake being handled without protection by a person. Turned out it was a rat snake that just happened to mimic the appearance a behavior of a boomslang.
My dad got bit/stung by a wheel bug a few years ago and I think he described the pain like getting shot with a red-hot bullet laced with hot sauce.
Looking at the picture you linked with the kissing bugs, I hope people don't confuse them with box elder bugs, who also have the black and orange but are harmless little guys.
https://preview.redd.it/n3uk0i7rrqbf1.png?width=940&format=png&auto=webp&s=f0b3c8a71d9e95dfaa8191c3b9e75b71b70030f7
Box elder on left kissing bug on right.
Thats so freaky I can't say I would have known to tell that apart from a harmless milkweed beetle at a glance...
Both wheel bugs and kissing bugs are types of assassin bugs. Assassin bugs are a family of insects.
They are both assassin bugs. Definitely share some similarities
Man, I gotta leave a comment in this thread to read more later. This shit is wild, first I'm hearing of these bugs.
I have had wheel bugs around my place in the past. Which led me to read up on them. Apparently, the bite is extremely painful. Might be harder to sleep through.
I've been bitten by a wheel bug before. EXTREMELY painful, feels like a bullet going through you, but it only leaves a tiny pink dot, nothing like this.
This. This is why I’m terrified of them. I haven’t seen one around here in a year or two, thankfully. But one summer I had a couple right outside my back door and one got in the house. I thought I was afraid of spiders, but these guys are what nightmares are really made of.
From what I understand, they are related.
Like ticks, their area is becoming larger and larger as the global temperatures increase. In Canada we went from having almost no ticks in the 90s not even really a worry, to now having to do regular tick checks if you even so much as go into the brush for five minutes
My friends kid (Ontario) just had 15 ticks on him after playing outside one night!
Yep. Becoming a big problem, especially black legged ticks.
I’m not sure how well it would work where you’re at, but the first year we moved to our current house, we had ticks pretty much every other time we went outside. There is a pretty heavy local deer population. I put out a bunch of tick tubes and mow regularly, and I tend to not get ticks anymore.
You’re welcome! It works by treating mice, chipmunks, and other small rodents while the ticks are in their nymph stage, so if you have any known small rodent areas, putting the tubes there should be good. We have a tree stump and a bit of brush in our back yard, and they tend to tear through those tubes first.
They also like to cross our driveway, so I put some in the ground cover on either side.
The only tick I ever had in my life I got in Ontario in 95, me and my brother were absolutely covered in them
Man the ticks are getting out of control in parts of Wyoming. There's spots I won't go anymore with my dog because they're so bad. You'll see moose calves and even the adults completely covered in them sometimes.
Thank you for this comment cause I saw a bug in my house the other day that looked like a kissing bug and I was panicking. Nope, it was definitely a conifer seed bug! 😂 thanks for helping me relax! lol
Naww I live in Provo Utah no way 😭
If she waits until she has symptoms it's often too late, she should see a doctor immediately.
You have probably seen assassin bugs before. Same genre different book. Assassin bugs dont typically go for humans.
Eew those big gnarley beetles that climb my house like Altiar?
https://preview.redd.it/3foyeqahmbbf1.jpeg?width=1500&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=699b683a2302500b4825773432eb8205074e3816
Ooooh those look different from what we have in WA state… I feel like ours have more spindly legs.
Its a whole type of bug so prolly same same but different
Are you thinking of the boxelder bugs?. Those things are everywhere in WA state. At least in my area.
Can you show me pictures? Google doesn't look like mine
From what I can tell the bites are similar to bedbugs but they typically go for around the mouth, which you have. Some people develop more severe reactions to the bites than others. I had a bout with bedbugs in my last apartment and only my partner reacted to bites. I can only assume that why the pictures you’re finding don’t exactly match. Most pictures are about the virus they spread
So you're immune to bed bugs? Those things are the devil, could lead a person to lay themselves down forever! They're so hard to get rid of.
Not reacting and immune can be different things.
I had bedbugs (I found around 20 of them in my bed) and never had a spot ! Not reacting to their bites neither.
Bed bugs generally bite in a line pattern no? And usually are raised.
And see a Dr asap. They transmit some nasty stuff.
We called those hickies.
A new tent??? What? Why would a new tent be needed? The bug likely just got brought in with some items or crawled in while the flap was open.
Unless there are obvious gaping holes in the tent structure, why the hell would someone need a new tent? Lmao crazy
Triatominae sounds like something I would include in my skincare routine
Can't believe that's a real name, thought the other comments were joking at first
My family calls them Tank Bugs. Because they look like armored little tanks.
Just knocked one of these fuckers off my car this morning, no clue that’s what it was called
I had no idea that’s what those bugs are called. I live in the south and see them all the time but had no idea that’s what those were.
Probably you eat parts of it in the açaí.