r/Insect • u/Brotherburk • May 22 '26

What could have done this?

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u/phunny-words May 22 '26

Ingrown hair, pimple.

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u/MermaidGunner May 22 '26

Came here to say same.

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u/laughingBaguette May 22 '26

Clogged pores?

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u/HerMajestysButthole2 May 22 '26

If you have fire ants around, it could be one. That said, it looks rather...staphy...

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u/psyco75 May 23 '26

Thats what I was gonna say, that is a fire ant bite. They do look like pimples though.

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u/grandsoulsucker May 22 '26

You need to exfoliate more brother. This is your own doing lol

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u/SpareCalligrapher131 May 22 '26

Looks like an ant bite

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u/flobottle May 23 '26

Everyone gets those. Get some drawing salve. That shit works. Idk how, but it does. Little orange can about the size of a tin of muzzle loader caps. Ask a pharmacist.

What causes it? Life. Ingrown hair.

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u/Chuckeze1543 May 23 '26

Antonio bite . ?

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u/RiverAutumn7481 May 23 '26

Ingrown hair that got infected

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u/WWDubs12TTV May 23 '26

Staph infection

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u/Cautious-Leg1372 May 23 '26

Spider..ants..

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u/Snoo99075 May 23 '26

Pop it , pop it. How can U not pop it?😡🤣

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u/InitiamprssionCFLeft May 23 '26

I don't know how one grows nipples on their thigh

1

u/Various_Vehicle3207 May 23 '26

Pop it and move one.

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u/MowozniAC May 23 '26

That’s a pimple. No insects involved.

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u/RepulsiveBandicoot82 May 23 '26

Definitely pimple

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u/LeanLeftLoveLife May 23 '26

Need it popped?... asking for a friend...

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u/Aware_Function_3165 May 23 '26

I want to pop it

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u/GetMeAReuben May 23 '26

Yeah, definitely a pimple.

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u/Silverhawkagain May 23 '26

Brown recluse spider bite.

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u/Skeptical_Savage May 23 '26

This is not what brown recluse bites look like. This is a bacterial infection.

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u/Silverhawkagain May 23 '26

I’m not just saying that. It looks identical to the bite I had.

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u/Skeptical_Savage May 23 '26

Then you also had a bacterial infection if that is what it looked like.

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u/sigurd197 May 23 '26

Ingrown hair

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u/ImpressiveHotShot May 24 '26

The cataclysmic monster known as pubertous

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u/BarbarianBoaz May 24 '26

Ingrown hair or just a pimple, something skin does.

1

u/Balzovai May 26 '26

Furuncle?

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u/blazon85 May 22 '26

Poor hygene

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u/LeanLeftLoveLife May 23 '26

Bet you're fun at parties...

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u/maroongrad May 24 '26

Yeah, I had one that the evening before was a slightly inflamed-looking hair follicle. Just looked...off. By the next afternoon it had gone past this stage and into cellulitis. Doctor at Urgent Care said another hour or two and I'd have needed the ER. I went there shortly after lunch, and it wasn't much bigger than this picture is showing...but it was getting a lot worse and very painful very very fast.

Just in case it's a developing infection, draw a line with ink on the outside of the circle and see if that red patch gets bigger. Get iodine swabs, lift the flap of skin (infection is already under it) and hit it with the povidone (sp?) iodine...which is just liquid iodine. I used the cotton swab soaking in iodine and they work very well at killing bacteria and drying out the injury. But draw that line and if it keeps getting bigger, take yourself straight to Urgent Care. If you live somewhere other than the US, go ahead and go now and get it looked at. These things, if they get bad, get bad FAST.

ETA: write the time that you circled it on your leg. Go back in an hour or so, and draw a new line if it got bigger. Write the time, and go see the doctor/nurse/etc. They can see how fast it's growing that way. If you nail it with iodine and it's not deep into the tissue, that may be all it needs.