Summary: Bug-shaped locomotive chunk of lipstick with legs. What.
About a week ago, I was sitting up against the wall when suddenly this bug randomly crawled up on my shirt. I pressed my finger on it, and was about to decide whether I should kill it or hold it there and bring it to the bathroom for closer examination, but it was too late because I pressed too hard.
When I lifted my finger up, all that remained of it was a smear. No mangled carcass, just a rusty-colored stain on the outside and inside my shirt, and somehow on my skin. There was no carcass, but a cluster of legs (like you'd find on the underbelly of a crab or lobster). From this information, I was able to gather that I had encountered a skinless bug with a body made out of lipstick.
For about 10 minutes after, I was searching for more and found none, but was extremely suspicious of every small black dot that crossed my line of sight.
I really wanna know what bug it was. I vaguely remember what it looked like, which is no help when identifying one bug out of several hundreds of species. The only defining characteristic I can think of is that it smelled like lipstick, but I don't think I can find information about bugs based on that. I think it may have been some sort of blood-sucking bug (specifically, a bedbug, but I don't know), but from my experience, blood smells distinctly like not lipstick. I had a few bites from a few days ago, but that's not definitive. I'm thinking that maybe there was more to it than legs, i.e. skin. Imagine a legged balloon that's been popped and then had the skin bunched up.
Hours were spent searching for what size/color/etc bedbugs are, and I was still unsure, as I am now.
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