NASTY small yellow and black checked insect that causes a bad rash???

[miketu]

Hi all, does anyone know about the #!$&(*&%&%^$!! small yellow and black checked insect about the size of a grain of rice that comes in the house at night and causes a large painful red rash if it stings you or is crushed on your skin?

 

Just gotten bit by one near my arm pit and has already rashed up with bumps, real nasty %%$#@!#@ bug!

 

Thanks!

[pikao]

could be a blister beetle

friend of mine got bitten and it lasted quite a while. Solution in the end was squashed garlic applied

[bkk6060]

Geez.

I do not think I would sleep naked.

[Bruce Aussie]

5 hours ago, bkk6060 said:

Geez.

I do not think I would sleep naked.

Our house bug free since my wife brought  Mr Peter insect devices.

Even our short haired dog sleeps with Mr Peter next to her. No more bites for her.

ZZZZZZZZZ

????❤????????

 

 

[CharlieH]

24 minutes ago, Bruce Aussie Chiang Mai said:

Our house bug free since my wife brought  Mr Peter insect devices.

Even our short haired dog sleeps with Mr Peter next to her. No more bites for her.

ZZZZZZZZZ

????❤????????

 

 

 

Available from Lazada here:

฿323.00 

https://s.lazada.co.th/s.ZvMRg

 

[JAS21]

6 hours ago, CharlieH said:

 

Available from Lazada here:

฿323.00 

https://s.lazada.co.th/s.ZvMRg

 

Does it work for mozzies?

[katana]

Looks like a Rove beetle.

They contain a potent vesicant pederin in their haemolymph that will produce a nasty blistered skin rash. Apparently pederin is highly toxic, more potent than cobra venom.
So if you see one, never touch it or crush it with your fingers and get it out of the house using some other object!

[katana]

3 hours ago, JAS21 said:

9 hours ago, CharlieH said:

 

Available from Lazada here:

฿323.00 

https://s.lazada.co.th/s.ZvMRg

 

Does it work for mozzies?

It claims it does in the description. In practice, maybe someone else knows...

[AhFarangJa]

14 hours ago, katana said:

Looks like a Rove beetle.

They contain a potent vesicant pederin in their haemolymph that will produce a nasty blistered skin rash. Apparently pederin is highly toxic, more potent than cobra venom.
So if you see one, never touch it or crush it with your fingers and get it out of the house using some other object!

It seems it may be the same as a friend encountered in Chiang Mai. He came out in a bad rash over his legs and torso. The doctor diagnosed this as the culprit, apparently, they like damp towels, and left the residue you describe on the towel which was then rubbed into the skin. It took about two months for the rash to heal, but still left minor blemishes.

[Damrongsak]

Yikes!  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paederus_dermatitis

 

There are thousands of species in this genus, but could well be.  Looks like the one in the pic in the Wiki article.

[DUNROAMIN]

On 12/1/2019 at 7:55 AM, Bruce Aussie Chiang Mai said:

Our house bug free since my wife brought  Mr Peter insect devices.

Even our short haired dog sleeps with Mr Peter next to her. No more bites for her.

ZZZZZZZZZ

????❤????????

 

 

What is the price for refills?

[manchega]

Fact: insects far more important to sustaining life on planet earth.

 

I hope karma catches up with those killing our 6 legged friends

[brianthainess]

I have had rashes and bites from a bunch of things, even from garden grass, the best thing to reduce rash and itching so far has been vinegar not any of the creams given by doctors. 

[toofarnorth]

Streuth ! That's not an insect , this is an insect .

[sammieuk1]

My house and garden has a scorched earth policy litraly me????

[CH1961]

On 12/1/2019 at 7:55 AM, Bruce Aussie Chiang Mai said:

Even our short haired dog sleeps with Mr Peter next to her. 

I could not sleep when Mr. Peter is in my bed too ????

[NightSky]

1 hour ago, toofarnorth said:

Streuth ! That's not an insect , this is an insect .

Amazingly my wife recognises both the insect image posted by the op as a poisonous one and the one posted by you as not poisonous.

 

she asked if the person bitten is still alive which is always a worry?

 

 

[katana]

If you Google image search for rove beetle rash there are some pictures of the rash which is no trivial thing.

In Thai they call the insect: duang gon grajok or duang pbeek san or duang gon ngawn.

https://th.wikipedia.org/wiki/ด้วงก้นกระดก

 

[Dante99]

If you get bitten or a squashed one on your skin, be careful not to touch that area and then touch skin in another place, the rash transfers  to another location easily.

[xtrnuno41]

I put a post of such a creature in forum and a movie about it i got from my wife.

You can not touch them, as then you have the skin problems.

You can read   animals in Thailand, little mean rove beetles

 

 

 

 

[toofarnorth]

On 12/2/2019 at 12:29 PM, NightSky said:

Amazingly my wife recognises both the insect image posted by the op as a poisonous one and the one posted by you as not poisonous.

 

she asked if the person bitten is still alive which is always a worry?

 

 

Does your wife recognise this one , my wife must of thought it was harmless.