Does anyone have a good pic of a flea?

Go to this site and about half way down is a great picture of a flea.  http://animals.howstuffworks.com/insects/flea.htm

well I'd say they look most like elongated pepper grounds...or elongated poppy seeds. Tiny...and they jump...meaning you seldom see one crawling...but it's there, then GONE.

AussiesRock, thanks for the link, I'll take a look.  :-)

rwbeagles -- thanks!  I definitely don't think they are fleas, then, because I mostly see them crawling and they are easy to pin down.

Whew!

I found bugs on Kenya in the fall, even posted about it here, and didn't think they were fleas at first.  They crawled on her, weren't that hard to catch.  But when I started getting them OFF her, they were obviously fleas.  From the top they looked more like lice, but when I got them off I could see those dangly legs underneath and they JUMPED.  I squashed one until it popped and it STILL managed to jump over a foot in the air!  They are very hard to kill and hard to squash b/c they are so small, so I kept a little bowl of bleach water out and dropped them in there whenever I caught one.

An easy way to tell is to look for flea dirt. 

If anyone does find fleas on the dog or in the house, this site has some helpful info: 

http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/ig132 

Good photos of fleas: http://bugguide.net/node/view/7040

Some of the little household pests that can look like fleas:

http://creatures.ifas.ufl.edu/urban/stored/drugstore_beetle.htm 

http://whatsthatbug.com/springtails.html 

Great site to help identify what you've got:

http://www.ento.vt.edu/Facilities/OnCampus/IDLab/id/id-main0.html 

spiritdogs

Good photos of fleas: http://bugguide.net/node/view/7040

 

Thanks, these are the best flea photos I've seen or been able to find.  FYI, none of the other links work.

I saw the name drugstore beetle in one of the links though, and so I googled it.  The bugs I am seeing look similar, I think?

I still don't know though...I haven't seen these things jump, I don't think.  I think I remember seeing wings (although I haven't seen them fly), and I know I read that fleas don't have wings.  They crawl right onto my fingers pretty readily.  I can kill them by just rubbing them between my fingers, but it's not overly easy, either.

Whatever they are, I keep finding them crawling on top of my bed sheets...ewwwwwww!!!  I only have white sheets on my bed atm, partly because it's easier to see any bugs that might be on them...but I also wonder if the white color might be attracting bugs to them.  I keep re-washing my bedding pretty much every day, although I haven't even been sleeping in my bed.

I usually only see the bugs at night...when it's dark outside, my bedroom window is open (with a screen), and the light is on (I'm a night owl).  My bed is pretty close to the window and, because my room is not that big, it is not too far from the overhead light...so I guess it could also be some kind of random bug that is just attracted to the light and coming in through the window and ending up on my bed...but when I do see them, I see quite a few.  Whatever they are, it is really gross!

Oh, and I have checked for flea dirt and didn't find any.

eek i hate crawlies in my house! all except spiders.

i'd spray out my whole house, take the dogs and move out for a few days...

FWIW, it beats having cockroaches... :(

 And this is why....I love carnivorous plants.

If you go to http://images.google.com/, you can find pictures of just about anything.  In the case of fleas, it will display some great flea pictures, but there is also the performer named Flea, the flea beetle, a flea circus, a stuffed flea, etc.

Well I have been keeping my light off the past two nights, and I haven't seen a single bug.  So I hope they were just attracted to the light and coming in the window...

janetmichel3009

eek i hate crawlies in my house! all except spiders.

What?  Except spiders?  Spiders are the worst, IMO.    LOL.

NO! spiders dont come in swarms, the tend to stay in their corners and they eat other creepy crawlies!

plus, according to my mother's culture, they are good luck! :)

janetmichel3009

NO! spiders dont come in swarms, the tend to stay in their corners and they eat other creepy crawlies!

plus, according to my mother's culture, they are good luck! :)

Well hey, I'll take any good luck I can get.  ;)