"Tough Guy no. 1265" wrote in message
news
On Sat, 22 Aug 2015 00:37:02 +0100, Rod Speed
wrote:



"Tough Guy no. 1265" wrote in message
news
On Fri, 21 Aug 2015 19:36:22 +0100, Chris Hogg wrote:

On Fri, 21 Aug 2015 16:00:35 +0100, "Tough Guy no. 1265"
wrote:

On Fri, 21 Aug 2015 15:49:45 +0100, Chris Hogg wrote:

On Thu, 20 Aug 2015 22:32:43 +0100, "Tough Guy no. 1265"

wrote:

Odd bug. Found on my leg for the second time in a few days.
Thought it was a midge, but trying to squash it resulted in it
jumping
very fast, like a sandfly.
Google image search doesn't help.
http://petersphotos.com/temp/Bug.jpg

Difficult to be anything but approximate with that image. Try
Tachyporus hypnorum http://tinyurl.com/pkydbsf , or Philonthus
marginatus http://tinyurl.com/nqtzhu2 (both are rove beetles
http://tinyurl.com/o2wdjg7, related to Devil's Coach Horse
http://tinyurl.com/obh84d4 ), or possibly Coranus subapterus,
http://tinyurl.com/nuzcxbj , a blood sucker.

Best I can offer.

None of those look plain enough.

Ask on uk.rec.natural-history

Flea off a cat? (I have 4)
http://entomology.osu.edu/bugdoc/She...s/Orders33.htm

Flea larva anyway.

No, it looked adult.

Your pic is of nothing like a real adult flea.

Much too long and thin for a real flea.

It was not a squirmy little caterpillar-like thing.

Adult fleas look nothing like that and jump, most insects don't.

It did jump.

They look exactly like that, this is a cat flea:
http://entomology.osu.edu/bugdoc/She...s/Orders33.htm

Your pic looks like the one in the top right. That's a flea lava, not an
adult flea.

You pic looks nothing like the other two pics of adult fleas.

How big was it ? Maybe the reason for the lousy photo was because it was
so
small.

The size of a Scottish midge.

That doesn't help any if you don't know how big those are.

The photo is about x20.

Cat fleas aren't even as big as a match head.