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Old 18-05-2012, 10:18 AM posted to uk.rec.gardening
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Default Biting bugs now with picture

In article , kay.a2b6bf6
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echinosum;958960 Wrote:
Managed to do a bit better with the photography.
'Bugs found in our bed | Flickr - Photo Sharing!'
(http://tinyurl.com/7qghped)

Actually I think I know now, but I'd like to know what you think before
I put any ideas in your head.


Fleas. You are very lucky.


Much easier to eradicate than bedbugs

I once moved into a flat which had fleas. Each night I walked round all
the rooms with bare legs and a glass of soapy water. As each flea leapt
on to my legs, I picked it off and dropped it in the water. First night
there were about 70, fewer on each succeeding night.


Friends of ours returned home (with cats) after a three week absence in
warm weather. R said that within minutes her white trousers were black to
the knees with very hungry fleas :-)

It only took about
a week. I can't remember if I supplemented it by flea powder in likely
places. It probably would have been the sensible thing to do.


I'd recommend overnight flea-powdering all carpets plus the tops and
underneaths of loose rugs; but treating pets with the liquid drop
available from vets. ( I avoid the over the counter one sold in smkts)

Janet.