Fleas? Lice?

RE: Fleas? Lice?

Silvia Maldonado — Fri, 17 Jul 2015 12:00:00 GMT

[quote user="Julian Earl"]

Those are lice eggs. Cheyletiella are relatively easy to find with sellotape strips and a good microscope and satisfying to do so. Rather common as well. Practice on those rabbits with the alopecic scaly backs. You'll learn to recognise them easily enough. Often you can see them moving with the naked eye using the light and magnification of an auroscope without the nozzle [of course! That is a useful piece of kit for all creepy-crawlies on skin.

[/quote] I did see lots of cheyletiella in Spain, even with the naked eye, if the dog was quiet and let me stare at the white dots, I used to see them moving a little bit, but as adults. However, I'm pretty "row" about eggs :( After seeing the Cheyletiella's eggs hat have been sent, I guess they are not cheyletiella. That kitten was living in a farm, which doesn't help either...

RE: Fleas? Lice?

Luca Poddighe — Fri, 17 Jul 2015 11:38:42 GMT

[quote user="Arlo Guthrie"]Sorry Silvia, but I only ever looked at fleas. I wouldn't know a cheyletiella if it came and tapped me on the shoulder [/quote]

A pretty impressive cheyletiella to tap you on the shoulder... You may need Ripley to shout 'Get away from him, you BI**H!

RE: Fleas? Lice?

Julian Earl — Fri, 17 Jul 2015 10:12:29 GMT

RE: Fleas? Lice?

Martin Atkinson — Fri, 17 Jul 2015 09:41:07 GMT

[quote user="Arlo Guthrie"]Sorry Silvia, but I only ever looked at fleas. I wouldn't know a cheyletiella if it came and tapped me on the shoulder[/quote]Tap tap:

And the eggs:

RE: Fleas? Lice?

Arlo Guthrie — Fri, 17 Jul 2015 06:28:19 GMT

[quote user="Silvia Maldonado"]Cheyletiella is more likely? [/quote]

Sorry Silvia, but I only ever looked at fleas. I wouldn't know a cheyletiella if it came and tapped me on the shoulder

RE: Fleas? Lice?

Silvia Maldonado — Thu, 16 Jul 2015 19:51:00 GMT

Sure! either parasite spp should be with stronghold. I was just kind of veterigeek curiosity ;)

RE: Fleas? Lice?

Charlotte Marshall — Wed, 15 Jul 2015 23:24:40 GMT

Personally I think lice is more likely. However if stronghold will treat the lice it should also treat cheyletiella and fleas so should sort the problem anyway!

RE: Fleas? Lice?

Silvia Maldonado — Wed, 15 Jul 2015 23:07:47 GMT

[quote user="Arlo Guthrie"]

Well, in a previous life, I spent many hours poring over a microscope, identifying various species of flea to judge a competition held for Novartis (Find a Flea, Win a Beetle), and those ain't fleas! Or if they are, they're deficient in the leg department

[/quote] Cheyletiella is more likely?

RE: Fleas? Lice?

Silvia Maldonado — Wed, 15 Jul 2015 23:06:36 GMT

Yeah, I deffo should have used sellotape instead. Just pulled some hair with the white dots, but wasn't lucky enough to get any acaro or insect :(

RE: Fleas? Lice?

Martin Atkinson — Wed, 15 Jul 2015 18:32:04 GMT

Look like lice eggs to me. How did you get this sample? A Sellotape strip is the best way to capture the walking ones. Anyway, stick some Stronghold on it and its contacts and its sorted.

RE: Fleas? Lice?

Arlo Guthrie — Wed, 15 Jul 2015 09:12:31 GMT

RE: Fleas? Lice?

grumpyoldman — Tue, 14 Jul 2015 23:33:57 GMT

"nits" they will drive you insane when your children repeatedly return home from school with them because some weirdo earth mother type refuses to treat their children who sit next to yours.

RE: Fleas? Lice?

Charlotte Marshall — Tue, 14 Jul 2015 23:14:26 GMT

These look like eggs to me stuck to the hairs. They would not be moving. I would imagine that what you saw moving slowly were probably lice and these could certainly be lice eggs. Cat lice are fairly easy to see with naked eye (personally I find I can't actually see cheyletiella). They are uncommon but you do see them occasionally. Felicola is the species name. I usually treat with front line spray.

RE: Fleas? Lice?

Yantha Smyth — Tue, 14 Jul 2015 23:12:12 GMT

they look like eggs stuck to hair shafts to me- i would think cheyletiella is likely