I found little orange/amber colored bugs on my dog?
They are not chiggers, not fleas and not red spider mites. I already looked those up online and they don't look like this little bug. It's very small, about the size of a baby bed bug. Does anyone have an idea of what it could be and if I should worry about them?
Small red creatures on my iguana !! Plz Help :S?
I have purchased my iguana ten days ago , his name is rooney . I paid arround 300 $ to prepare a good habitat for him . He is 8 months old. I bought normal lights with addition to UV-B lights . I keep changing his water every day , i feed him lettuce , carrot and he did not eat too much ,But i notice that some days he ate . He started to get used to me , im handling him now and he closes his eyes which means he feels safe or playing dead, i made many research before i purchase it . I believe i offered him everything , he has a big aquarium ( 1m * 0.5 m * 0.75 m ) and it includes some tree branches. Now here comes the problem : Yesterday i noticed some very very small red creature on the back of my iguana ( two red walking dots !!! ) i got crazy , then i noticed some other red dots on the branches, i tired to kill these creatures by tissues , it look like its full of blood !! I bath my iguana twice a week . I m afraid , does my iguana have a disease, is these red dots are from tree ?
Could there be a parasite in my stomach?
Parasitic diseases in humans are caused by protozoans and helminthes. The cysts and trophozoite forms of protozoans are most often found in feces but are also found in other tissues or excreta. The helminthes are most often detected by the presence of their eggs in feces; but these, too, can be found in tissues or other excreta. Human parasites and headlice can be one of the most aggravating as well as embarrassing of all pests. There are several different types of human parasites including lice and mites. The most common types of human lice are body lice, headlice, and crab or pubic lice. The most common types of mites are scabies mites, house mites, straw itch mites, and even chiggers. Typically, any kind of human parasite problem including lice and mites are considered to be a medical problem, with little or no cure other than good personnel hygene and thorough washing of clothes, sheets, bedspreads and other infested items that have been in close personnel contact with the infected person. Human parasites are only spread by personal contact with an infected person or contaminated clothing. Most of these parasites cannot live without their human host, therefore treatment of the home or building with pesticides is of little or no use. Personal treatment must be performed by trained medical personnel or at the very least by the use of the proper pharmacuetical products recommended by your doctor.
What is your least favorite animal? Why?
What is your least favorite animal? Why?Flies.They’re emblematic of rot, filth, and decay, and I hate them.Also LeechesThey hide in the water where you can’t see them, latch onto you, and suck your very blood. I hate them too.
If a bed bug crawls into your mouth or ears while sleeping, can it live inside you?
A bed bug won't likely wander into a person's mouth or ears. But, if it did, it could survive there just as it might if it was hiding in most any shelter. Would it survive long? If in the mouth, it'd probably get spooked by movements of the tongue and by air flowing through, and then quickly scurry off. If it stayed in place, it might end up getting swallowed, and would quickly die within the acid environment of the stomach. What about the ear? It can only invade so far into that canal. It might even blood feed while there. Many other insects and even ticks have wandered into the ear canal and caused the person some amount of distress until the creature was removed or backed out by itself. Whether the bug is in the mouth or ear canal, it is really not 'within' a person in the sense of invading beneath the skin. Bed bugs have no interest in - and are incapable of - burrowing into skin or other tissues. It is only the fine stylets of the mouthparts that are capable of penetrating skin, and only for a fraction of a millimeter as they search for a skin capillary.
How dangerous can a leech bite be?
Leeches are actually quite fascinating. They use suckers to attach themselves to the skin. Before they actually start sucking any blood, they inject a chemical substance that acts as a local anesthetic to that area. Then they start to suck out blood from that area and swell up. Because of their weight after swelling up, they fall off. Sometimes people won't even notice they have been bitten by a leech until they see the bite because of the anesthetic. The only significant trouble with the leech is that it also injects heparin which makes it difficult for the blood to clot. If you don't notice the bite, you can lose some amount of blood (shouldn't be anything major, though). Apart from this, depending on the surroundings, the bite area is subject to infection - just like any other wound or cut. In my understanding, leech bites shouldn't be much more dangerous than this. In fact, they are also used in the treatment of certain diseases to good effect.
Will insects get to a body that has been buried six feet underground without a casket?
As Christopher answered, soil creatures will easily get to a buried body. This includes worms and ants, and certainly bacteria. That said, if the body has been embalmed well and if the casket is vaulted and made of metal or cement, it and the body inside may last quite longer than expected.However, of the different insects that feed on cadavers, different ones prefer different depths. A forensic entomologist can use this information to determine if a body was buried or not. Some reports say blow flies (Calliphoridae) won’t visit a corpse even if it’s just under a few centimeters of soil, although others put the limit at around 30 cm (1 foot). House flies (Muscidae) might be more common, and they push through the cracks in the soil to try to reach the cadaver and lay eggs. Sometimes flies lay their eggs on the soil above the body, and the hatched larvae then crawl down to the body, again pushing through cracks in the soil.Some flies and a few beetles seem to have no trouble with buried bodies, based on the results of disinternments (un-burying a casket). One fly species in particular, Conicera tibialis, seems to be found exclusively in buried bodies and rarely surface bodies, such that its common name is “coffin fly.” It’s limit is 2 meters, which is 6.33 feet. So if you are “six-feet under,” the coffin fly will still get you. Other flies seem to like coffins that are not buried, like those in mausoleums. Some flies like outdoor bodies and others indoor bodies, and this is all information a forensic entomologist must know.Source: Forensic Entomology: The Utility of Arthropods in Legal Investigations, Second EditionThis all being said, the “Six Feet Under” depth for graves was more about keeping out animals and graverobbers than insects… we think. Six feet might also be a limit rather than a minimum in places where the soil is too wet, to keep the coffins from literally floating up. In practice, people bury bodies at different depths in different parts of the world. The Other Side Of Funerals: 6 Feet Deep
Do people who have always lived in a four-season climate and then move to same-all-year-around climate miss the change of seasons?
In my case very much so. Western Pennsylvania has at least 4 seasons every year. This year we had at least 3 Indian Summers, and now we’re in early winter, but it will likely warm up later in the winter.I went from Western PA to Tempe for 3 years of graduate school. I’d say that the Phoenix area has 2 seasons. Hot from April or May through October and blah in between.Most people there bragged about the great weather, but few spend any time outdoors except to go from buildings to cars and back or into swimming pools for nearly half the year. Not having a car at the time, I was an exception to that. Fortunately, I tanned well and could handle the sun and the high temperatures, except for the time I tried to do my regular 4-mile run when it was 117 degrees F in the shade, and I wasn’t in the shade. I made 2 miles and felt awful.Then there were the wonderful dust storms.I have been happily back in Western PA for over 40 years now and love the changing seasons. Rain and snow are especially nice things after living in a desert. They add variety to the running I still do with little fear of dying of dehydration. The scenery keeps changing and is different types of beautiful at different times of the year.Now that I’ve taken up serious hiking to go along with distance running, I appreciate the different ways trails are beautiful in different weather.I’m really not interested in living in environments that have weather that doesn’t change much and is as dry as living indoors. To me nature is like a close acquaintance who sometimes is easy to get along with and other times challenges me to do difficult and interesting things. Because of this I don’t seek out nature at its meekest.
Can fleas kill humans? PLEASE ANSWER QUICKLY!!?
All right relax and lets discuss. Yes fleas can carry disease. If the fleas are from a house pet or contaminated house then the house will have to be handled. Where did the fleas come from. In doors or out doors? Are you sure they are flea bits and not tick bites or bed bug bites? You mention scratch marks... where did they come from? Certainly not from the fleas? Is a cat involved? Are the scratches from a cat or animal? If so cat scratches can cause serious allergic reactions. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++... 1. The fleas came from outdoors where much more cats are. [I live in a street where there are many cats everywhere] 2. Yes im sure they are fleas. I saw them on me. 3. My cat scratched me when I batheth her, Yes a cat is involved. She has the fleas. [Not as many now, where doing as muych to get rid of her fleas]
Is there any other insect that may produce a straight line of many small bites like bed bugs do while you sleep?
Carpet BeetlesI had once moved from a bedbug infested house to a new house. But even after moving to a new house, I keep getting those itchy spots on my hands and legs. I was scared if I brought bedbugs in the new house. But later I found that that new house was infested by these innocent(as compared to bedbugs) carpet beetles.Just as their name implies, these beetles feed on your carpet. They also feed on other clothing type like wool, silk felt, etcThey look something like this:But it is not the beetles which are usually responsible for the red itchy spots on skin, it’s their larvae.The image is very enlarged, but the larvae is 1/8th to 1/4th inch long and covered with hair. People confuse carpet beetle larvae with bedbugs due to their very similar appearance. But their main difference is that bedbugs do not have hair while carpet beetle does.Carpet beetles do not bite but some people can be allergic to its hair. Like bedbugs, even they are attracted to CO2. They tend to walk on your body at night and leave a trail of red itchy spots in a straight line which looks very much like bedbug bites. They are shy insects and hence, its difficult to find them. If you do find one, it usually means there is already an active infestation in the house.It is not very difficult to get rid of the infestation. Just some good vacuuming and boric acid would do the trick.