Sometimes Dawn dish soap helps get them out..but then you have 2 oil your hair to replenish it. It sucks..thought I was getting close of ridding myself of these and them my head hit a plant before the respray of the trees! I looked at the leaves with my microscope and then..dammit! mites again in my hair! Stay away from yard work if you can! good luck to all..docs don’t really help and it’s hard to find any that knows about these things…don’t give up!

sincerely,
Jane

PACKING TAPE HELPS! Then use disposable shower cap at night. Wash hair with Dawn and really lotion up your body and hair to add oils again! Wish there was a cure for this! Maybe DDT back for spraying would help but illegal! good luck to all and pay someone to do your yardwork if you can! sincerely Jane

So the official Health system adheres to the “Delusory Parasitosis” diagnosis (without giving any scientific evidence in their articles), which does NOT fit at all to the facts and situations I am observing, while my theory (the attacks are caused by Italian-type cypress tree) complies with all real situations applying ‘police’ method criteria. A clear example is that I have arrived to the same conclusion like Gloria, who is a lot of km apart overseas in USA. Curious thing is that doctors here refuse to order the collection of samples in my dwelling to confirm or not the presence of some pest also existing in cypress. So they prevent me to obtain a biologic scientific evidence on the correlation between cypress and those attacks in my humid areas. Even the ‘minister’ of Health in this Autonomous Region ignores my reports: he gives no response at all. Should I go to the Magistrates’ Court to get that judge order to investigate by this test in the way I suggest? How readers evaluate my ’1001 Nights’ with that funny amusement in bed?

They do not care at all. Sorry, folks, pest is now filling my mouth and eyes, ‘snaling’ in/out my nose and I must get up and hurry to wash. This is the assistance one receives in SPAIN when my employers and myself have paid tax for my position running US and German corporations in Spain over 400,000 dollars at constant value to the Social Security along my working life creating jobs etc. …

Good day. URGENT matter: please give priority

I have read the web of the TEXAS Forest Service and
found on it some valuable info related to my case.

Am located in a Summer resort South of Barcelona, Spain.
The problem has been + is I am attacked daily along the last 3 years by a yet unidentified pest every night in bed
and during the day when sitting at PC and watching TV,
right after the pest explorers have located me and this
happens mainly after I take my meals.

The Public Health institutions and political authorities in
Barcelona refuse, are not willing or unable to assist me. Cause likely is some authors have created some confusion to dermists and allergists alleging that sensations of beings crawling over skin of ‘sufferers’ are not real and pretending psychiatrists have the key for a presumed ‘mental disorder’ [¿?].

In my case I refute absolutely this non-scientifically enough proven thesis. With my systematic observations I only can accept there are some common areas: that may interfere a right diagnosis.

What I request is a serious investigation by a biologist, that
specifies the methodology to collect samples at my home and looks at them with a microscope. Identification is necessary and previous to pest control in my dwelling.

Am reproducing here as a SUMMARY a number of para-graphs of previous reports of mine, which am putting to your consideration kindly requesting you if you think my theory is plausible and consistent and can be confirmed by your experience or scientific background, as follows:

1.

Spider mites are common pests in the urban landscape. They can inflict serious damage to trees, shrubs and flowers. Both evergreen and deciduous plants may be attacked. Spider mites are not insects but are more closely related to ticks (garrapatas) and spiders.
2.
Many species of spider mites can be found in landscapes:
• The twospotted spider mite,
• Tetranychus urticae (Koch), and spruce spider mite,
• Oligonychus ununguis (Jacobi), are the most common pests.

Other species with fewer host plants include:
• European red mite,
• Panonychus ulmi (Koch), found on apple trees;
• honeylocust spider mite,
• Platytetra-nychus multidigitali (Ewing);
• southern red mite,
• Oligonychus ilicis (McGregor), on a variety of plants;
• boxwood spider mite,
• Eurytetranychus buxi (Garman); and the oak mite,
• Oligonychus bicolor (Banks).
•

3.
Types of Damage
Spider mites have needle-like mouth parts and feed by piercing the leaves of host plants to suck out the fluids from individual plant cells. Needle-like : como agujas, y
son las que se me clavan dentro de mi boca y garganta.
Besides, these pests absorb moisture from my eyes.

4.
They are even known to wander inside [emigran a los interiores] when numbers are abundant and walk about on counters and offices furniture [se pasean por los mostradores y muebles de oficina ]. They frequently enter computer equipment and appliances, apparently for the warmth [a menudo entran en los ordenadores y electrodomésticos, quizá buscando calor].

5.
The twospotted spider mite, for example, is often introduced on infested bedding and house plants.

Spider mites are usually not killed by regular insecticides (estos arácnidos están cubiertos -como yo pensaba- por una cutícula protectora) pero con mi defensa, 3 máquinas por medios físicos (vapor / aire HT), sí mueren.
Si no, me sería imposible dormir seguido unas pocas horas.
rev: 21.02.2011

6.
Mi teoría -pendiente por supuesto de ser confirmada técnicamente por la visualización de las muestras- creo es la más plausible y ello -sin descartar nunca otras hipótesis- simplemente porque las piezas me encajan prácticamente todas en el puzzle, como sigue:

I believe alleged X-pest could well be some very tiny beings, that are living specifically in the cypress growing (3-level up to the roof) in the garden located in the ground floor below.

We see now (pollen season) how dust + pollen clouds are blown off daily from the tree by local winds coming from the sea to my balcony with other ‘spores’ or tiny particles; pest units are likely thrown together in this mass too.
Now we must keep balcony + window of dining room closed all day thru, as we are in the very heart of pollen season.

US entomologists say cypress spider mites do not usually attack humans; maybe, I can only agree this pest is not purposely designed to live in humans, but in garden.

(The possible explanation is: no precedent is available, as nobody related before a cypress tree with those attacks:
I found this correlation by my investigations. Physicians
can not see from their desk in the hospital that we have a
cypress tree below in the garden and never found such a
situation in the past. My blame is I am saying all the time
there is here a pest and they did not undertake any action
either, even after I told them my story when I found the cypress as the pest source).

However, when they have landed in my balcony, they likely move crawling over the floor or suspended in air and try to enter in the human dwelling; once are inside our flat they search for higher temp and moisture rooms than outdoors.

When am in bed in the night, or standing or sitting a while, their ‘pioneers’ detect me as a tasty host, climb up to my mouth, eyes and nose to enjoy my body liquids. Therefore their attacks are not too relevant on my skin (only a couple of bites in ears and outside nose), used mainly as a surface for their transit; their real target are my mentioned areas, where they rest and bite fiercely to absorb humidity / membrane moisture.

The higher the pest population, the more intensive attacks until my biological alarm wakes me up [¿?] in bed.

My wife –as a lady- has realized a new factor in the day the Bolivian girl comes once a week to clean our staircase:
by design this is pretty dark, as has no daylight nor any windows: when she shakes doormats, pest is likely project-ted around on floor and air of all 3 landings and invades flat.

This might be too why I feel impacts of tiny masses on the head and eye invasion falling from upper floors when I enter the building from street.

Conclusión

I. The supposed pest is in the building where I live and at home including balcony, the gallery, where laundry is hung.
When my wife puts clean dry bedding, I have to kill pest with steam
II. I never noticed pest presence or attacks outdoors nor in the nights I have slept in Hospital bed in 2 different occasions
III. when I take papers from drawers, files, desk etc. I’m right away attacked in my eyes + mouth and so on

7.
My application to Health Authority

I. I request the responsible Health Authority to give specific orders to have this problem investigated to determine real cause and diagnosis and how to solve issue to get rid of pest or attacks
II. this should happen asap: I do not want to spend any further night waking up with my mouth and eyes full of sawdust (‘serrín’) and asphyxia feeling (asthma from mite feces?)
III. I want this cypress cut down immediately

Gracias y saludos
Dr. Ing. Francisco de Asís RUIZ
Economist (Faculty BCN) + Ingeniero Industrial
US Diploma as an Engineer on Power Transmission …

P.S.: please feel free to call back on me if you need further data or the sketch I have prepared for graphical issue representation as an attachment