Almost two years ago, I underwent several simultaneous life changing events. I suffered total burnout and gave up a career I had spent more than 20 years creating, I had several major medical problems that all came to a head and I had a spiritual awakening that had been knocking on the walls of my consciousness for a long time. The strange thing, though, is that at the time that all of this tumult was occurring, I started to have a series of problems with insects, which continue to this day, and I'm wondering if anyone might know why this has happened and what can be done to stop it.

To give you a brief description, a former apartment attracted visits from many insect friends, some welcome and others not. It started with an infestation of fleas that were attributed by my landlord to my indoor cat. I realize that anyone's environment can be afflicted with fleas, but these never seemed to leave, regardless of how diligent I was in treating my environment and four-footed friend. Next was the arrival of those huge hairy bees who bored right through one of my eaves and attacked anything/anyone else in the environment. I don't care what anyone says; I can personally attest that those things sting. Shortly thereafter, my apartment was invaded by bird mites which wreaked havoc on both my sanity and health. Then I had an invasion of huge horse flies which just showed up in one of my bedrooms during the middle of the winter. Now I seem to have what we think is an infestation of Collumbera, otherwise known as Springtails, (again, dont listen when people say that dont bite or are not attracted to humans and domestic animals), which are theorized to be involved in the whole Morgellons/CNS theory.

I have physically moved to get away from these things yet they continue to follow me. Im a middle-aged woman in fairly decent health and yes, for those wisea**es out there, I shower every day and practice good hygiene. It was initially somewhat funny in that my friends called me the Pied Piper of Bugs and where ever I showed up, an insect would as well (i.e. I visited a friend Who lives in another state this past January and shortly after I arrived, a horse fly managed to get in the house) He joked that he was going to ask me to leave, though I'm not sure how much of a joke it was.

It's getting to the point where I have so many bites and irritations from these things that they are taking over my life. Any thoughts as to why this is happening and what can be done to make it stop? Any suggestions at all would be appreciated!

Timidgal

EDIT: Forgot to mention a battle with two huge nests of Sac spiders, one of which prematurely hatched and hundred of tiny baby spiders patrolled the apt biting me and my cat.

Get some poison and tell them to get the %&^* out of your house.

It sounds like you tried alternative means to rid your house of bugs... and made the problem worse... because youve foudn some rediculous identity in being "gross bug lady".

See a doctor for treatment of the parasites... you might need something strong and ez to overdose on like IVERMECTIN internally, so be ever so careful.

There are topicals also like Hartz mange/scabies dusting powder to use all around the house to prevent constant reinfections.. but like me, I think u need a CHANGE IN ENVIRONMENT pronto.

pick up and move it will do ya some good! along with the medical attention from a professiona.

1. Fruits. Do you have store or eat large quantities of strange fruits?
2. Fragrance. Do you consistently wear perfume?
3. Sugar. Do you store or consume large amounts of candy or raw sugar?

All are insect attractive. All 3 might be insect nirvana. Just a query.

Whereabouts do you live? What sort of climate? Do you run the air conditioner all the time? Do you vacuum or sweep your floors? What method of flea and mite control do you use on your cat?

Originally posted by charlyv
1. Fruits. Do you have store or eat large quantities of strange fruits?
2. Fragrance. Do you consistently wear perfume?
3. Sugar. Do you store or consume large amounts of candy or raw sugar?

All are insect attractive. All 3 might be insect nirvana. Just a query.

Very good points! I've had insect issues maybe the past 5 years or so. It doesn't matter where I live or what time of year it is. Just last night my son pointed out (hysterically!) that a spider was dropping from the ceiling onto my head. Which made me hysterical!
I do all 3 of the above things. I had over 30 mosquito bites on the 4th of July last year. I'm going to make some changes and see if it helps.

lemongrass, cinnamon, citronella and peppermint essential oil used in various ways should do the trick for most pests
D.E (diatomaceous earth) food grade or codex will eliminate the flea problem fo sho

Originally posted by seentoomuch
Whereabouts do you live? What sort of climate? Do you run the air conditioner all the time? Do you vacuum or sweep your floors? What method of flea and mite control do you use on your cat?

I live in the Northeastern part of the US, there was a point where i was vacuuming every single day, I've been treating my cat with Revolution for over a year (and pre-dating the flea infestation) and I've had the exterminator bomb the house and treat the car with insecticide to get rid of the fleas and mites.

I just have to ask, but do other people see the bugs?