On Sun, 23 Aug 2015 22:29:08 +0100, Tim Streater wrote:

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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 wrote:

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

4 fleas or 4 cats?

To make sure the fleas never reawake to live in your house then I suggest
Indorex. The fleas and their larve can lie dormant in carperts etc for a
while.

Couple of years.

It was the only answer when I fostered a flea infested moggie.

Noted. So you spray the 500ml aerosol all over the house?

On all carpets etc.

In this case it was only one room, as that is where the foster cat
slept/lived.

You need to do it twice, with a couple of weeks between hits, so that
the pupae (which will survive being sprayed) will hatch out and get
done by the second hit.

Also put the stuff on the cats necks as has already been discussed.

What's wrong with spraying the cat with it?

We don't seem to be able to get the insecticide bombs in this country
more's the pity.

Import one then, whatever it is.

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