What is this OLIVE LOOKING BUG?

Question

ok...i found some weird bug in my room the other day...it looked like an olive wiv legs n wings! when i got a closer look me and my sister both thought it was hairy but then it flew n we ran away. later that night my dad got it out of my room and put it in the back garden. the next day i woke up with a nasty bite on my arm and it really itches. a few days later i was in my livin room and it was back!! i have never seen it before and now ive seen it twice in 1 week. also i now have another bite like the 1st 1...at 1st i thought it was a gnat but both times when ve seen it iv got a nasty bite (worse than a gnat bite) PLZ HELP!!

Answer 1

You don't say how big it was. It could have been a shield beetle

Answer 2

I can't think of any green insects that size in the U.K.

Tiger beetlle grow to about 1.5 cm

http://www-biol.paisley.ac.uk/bioref/Ani...

Beetles are highly unlikely to bite you.  It is far more likely to be a spider, tick, mosquito or gnat.  When you are biten by a mosquito or gnat it is bacteria carried by the insect which causes itchiness. Therefore two gnat bites can cause quite different reactions depending on what microbes each gnat is carrying.

Sheildbugs a.k.a. Stinkbugs are native to the U.K. and the U.S. In the U.K. they grow to about 1.5 c.m.   The live by sucking sap from plants and would stay away from animals not bite them.

These are two of the largest.

http://www.lakelandwildlife.co.uk/templa...

http://www.lakelandwildlife.co.uk/templa...

Dagonflies and damselflies come in all colours and may bite if caught, but they are not active at night.   They feed on mosquitoes, flies and other small insects.

Here's an olive looking one.

http://www.dragonflyproject.org.uk/

Answer 3

Sounds like a June or May bug. Check out the pics on the link below. They are harmless and tend not to bite. I expect you may have been nibbled by a mozzie. Just rub a little antihistamine cream on or antiseptic. Oh yes, and don't scratch it. lol.