"Tough Guy no. 1265" wrote in message
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On Sat, 22 Aug 2015 20:16:35 +0100, Rod Speed
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"Tough Guy no. 1265" wrote in message
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On Sat, 22 Aug 2015 00:37:02 +0100, Rod Speed
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"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"

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On Fri, 21 Aug 2015 15:49:45 +0100, Chris Hogg
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On Thu, 20 Aug 2015 22:32:43 +0100, "Tough Guy no. 1265"

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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.

It looks like the bottom one.

Your original looks nothing like the bottom one.

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.

Then see the scale below.

The photo is about x20.

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

Neither was this.

But nothing like the shape of your original pic.