On Tue, 25 Aug 2015 12:34:33 +0100, whisky-dave wrote:

On Monday, 24 August 2015 20:23:28 UTC+1, Tough Guy no. 1265 wrote:
On Mon, 24 Aug 2015 13:59:56 +0100, whisky-dave wrote:

On Friday, 21 August 2015 21:19:35 UTC+1, Tough Guy no. 1265 wrote:
On Fri, 21 Aug 2015 21:14:15 +0100, Tough Guy no. 1265 wrote:

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

The latest cat I got a fortnight ago is losing a lot of hair. Apparently this is from excessive grooming that they do when they have fleas. I'll spray him.

That doesn;t really help much the spray is for the carpets where the eggs hatch into laevy which is what the spray kills rather than the fleas.
fleas are killed by the stuff yuo get to put on the back of the neck.
It gets into the blood stream and that's what kills the fleas.

I have Johnsons spray for mites on birds. It appears to kill the fleas too.

Differnt animals have difernt fleas there use dto be a human flea but they have pretty much died out due to modern hygene. The normal cat flea spray you buy
well the one I get from the VETs says not to be sprayed directly on your cat.

This said you could spray it directly onto birds, so I guess cats and myself are ok with it.

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