I was looking around the carpet near my window and found what is either a dead nymph (?) or a shed? I can't tell. Then, unfortunately, I looked at my baseboard heater (looks like this - http://inspectapedia.com/heat/Heating_Baseboard118-DJFss.jpg ) at saw two tiny bugs crawling on it.
This was one of the bugs I saw crawling. It's really, really tiny
I know this one is blurry, but I think this looks like an older nymph, maybe? But it was so much lighter than the bed bugs I've seen and seemed hollow/thin.
Background:
- Contacted my complex after getting itchy welts and seeing two live ones (ID'd on here as bed bugs or bat bugs). I found no evidence in my bed or on my mattress or in the boxspring. Three treatments with Transport (and another similar chemical) in all rooms. PCOs found no evidence of bed bugs (but I kind of question their attention to detail). They said they inspected surrounding units and also found nothing. I found one live one and one shed near the window (which has the heater) but the PCOs said that they would not harbor in such a hot spot.
- 2 months, no bites! I have a passive cardboard monitor at the head of my bed I check every week. Nothing. Yesterday I had kind of an itchy bump on my head, but there's been a lot of mosquitos and it wasn't as severe as the bites I had before.
- TODAY: Found all this near the window/heater. : (
We keep the window open at night. I'm wondering if these could be actually be bat bugs getting in, and that's why I never see any blood spots? But we're not on the top floor and I've never seen any bats. Or did the pesticide treatments leave some bed bug eggs that are now hatching? I really don't know what to do. I kept comforting myself by saying usually bed bugs live near the bed and that they couldn't go so long without biting...
Any advice or help is greatly appreciated, and thank you so much for the help given thus far.