This bite on his eye was made from a kissing bug.  These bugs normally

feed at night because they find their food by sensing for body heat.  They

tend to feed on the faces of people and that is where they get their name

from.  Not all bites are this severe, this person just may be more sensitive

to the saliva they inject, or because the bite is close to his eye.  Kissing

bugs can carry a life threatening disease called Chagas Disease.  This

disease doesn't cause many symptoms when first contracted, but as time

goes on the symptoms get worse.  If left untreated for a long time the

disease can be fatal.

These bites could be from chiggers, they are mites that feed on skin of mammals

including humans.  Often they cause severe itching ant irritation.  They are

about .5 mm big so they are very hard to see.  They tend to burrow under the skin

and many people say putting Vaseline, or clear fingernail polish over there mark

will kill them.

Mosquito bites can be confused for bed bug bites, specially if the person

has multiple bites in the same area.  One of the only differences is that

mosquito bites tend to go away faster then bed bug bites if left alone. 

This wound is from a Brown Recluse Spider, the venom that the spider

injects dissolves the tissue that is around the bite wound.  This is generally

how they eat, they inject their prey with this toxin and it dissolves the insides

and the spider actually drinks the preys insides.  Unfortunetaly this is what

happens to a human when they get bitten by one.

Here are some more mosquito bites that could be confused with bed bug

bites.  Everything looks the same as a bed bug infestation would, even the

grouping of the bites.

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