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Biting bugs now with picture
Managed to do a bit better with the photography.
Bugs found in our bed | Flickr - Photo Sharing! Actually I think I know now, but I'd like to know what you think before I put any ideas in your head. |
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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. 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.
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Presumably you mean relatively very lucky that it isn't bedbugs, which are far harder to get rid of.
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Precisely.
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@gardenbanter.co.uk says... 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. |
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In article , echinosum.a2b1796
@gardenbanter.co.uk says... 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. definitely fleas. The back legs are definitive. Janet. |
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"echinosum" wrote in message ... 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. -- echinosum |
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Biting bugs now with picture
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echinosum 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. -- echinosum |
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In article , echinosum 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. -- echinosum Nick's reply hopped off? Janet |
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Biting bugs now with picture
"echinosum" wrote in message ... 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. -- echinosum I know you said you didn't think they were fleas but they certainly look like it to me! -- Charlie, Gardening in Cornwall Holders of National Collections of Clematis viticella and Lapageria rosea cvs http://www.roselandhouse.co.uk |
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We don't have a dog or a cat. I think we do have mice at the moment, as I'm catching them at the rate of about once a month when I put out a trap wherever I see some droppings. Though, actually, it occurs to me as I write this, given that I am regularly seeing droppings on an exterior windowsill, near a couple of gaps in the roof tiles, I wonder if we also have bats... |
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Biting bugs now with picture
"echinosum" wrote in message ... 'Charlie Pridham[_2_ Wrote: ;959024']"I know you said you didn't think they were fleas but they certainly look like it to me! I was surprised when I got this close-up photo of fleas, because I had felt quite strongly, seeing one alive walking around on me, it wasn't a flea. But I've never actually knowingly seen live fleas before. I've twice caught fleas while travelling, but I never actually saw them, and those ones, both caught off cats at guesthouses, gave me much nastier bites than the present ones. It just shows how important it is with insects, and indeed birds and other animals, to see them in flesh, going about their business, because it is very difficult for photos in books to communicate the look of that. We don't have a dog or a cat. I think we do have mice at the moment, as I'm catching them at the rate of about once a month when I put out a trap wherever I see some droppings. Though, actually, it occurs to me as I write this, given that I am regularly seeing droppings on an exterior windowsill, near a couple of gaps in the roof tiles, I wonder if we also have bats... Mice or bats cannot give you the fleas you have. Strip your bed and vacuum your mattress. Then vacuum every inch of your house, including the seams of your soft furnishings You've picked up some fleas from who knows where. I am very lucky, that although I had dogs for more years than I would like to share,and after that two cats, I have never had fleas in my house. Let me make sure all realise that having fleas in your house doesn't mean your house is dirty. Tina |
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On 17/05/2012 20:18, echinosum 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. Get a can of Johnsons House Flea Spray Extra Guard. This will deal with the fleas and anything which hatches from their eggs. We don't have any pets, but brought some of the unwanted guests back with us after we stayed with some friends who keep cats. It took several weeks to eradicate the pests! -- Jeff |
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Biting bugs now with picture
Jeff Layman wrote:
Get a can of Johnsons House Flea Spray Extra Guard. This will deal with the fleas and anything which hatches from their eggs. We don't have any pets, but brought some of the unwanted guests back with us after we stayed with some friends who keep cats. It took several weeks to eradicate the pests! I thought cat fleas couldn't live on human blood for a significant length of time? |
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