https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/completely-ot-and-kinda-gross-sorry-bugs Style Advice for Fashion Lovers en-US Mon, 27 Apr 2026 02:31:23 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 q https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/search.php https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/completely-ot-and-kinda-gross-sorry-bugs/page/2#post-412266 Sun, 28 Aug 2011 18:00:08 +0000 DressLover 412266@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I hope you get back to the hardwood soon, Mo. Keep hanging in there! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/completely-ot-and-kinda-gross-sorry-bugs/page/2#post-412260 Sun, 28 Aug 2011 17:49:59 +0000 Mo 412260@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>BF is thinking carpet beetle preliminarily . . . I am just shivering with heebie jeebies looking at all the bug pics. GROSS!</p> <p>EDIT: and this makes me all the happier to be going home to our hardwood floors someday soon! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/completely-ot-and-kinda-gross-sorry-bugs#post-412259 Sun, 28 Aug 2011 17:47:50 +0000 Anonymous 412259@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>How is the kitty, fully recovered? </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/completely-ot-and-kinda-gross-sorry-bugs#post-412258 Sun, 28 Aug 2011 17:46:05 +0000 DressLover 412258@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Well good news is bed bugs are have banded bodies and no wings, so that probably isn't one if it is a furry caterpillar look-alike. (I know because I travel a lot and ALWAYS check for bed bugs even at the nicest hotels. I am that grossed out by them.)</p> <p>Hang in there - I know you are ready to move! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/completely-ot-and-kinda-gross-sorry-bugs#post-412257 Sun, 28 Aug 2011 17:43:33 +0000 Mo 412257@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I don't know - these look kinda furry like mini caterpillers. I can't take it much longer!! I want to fumigate my whole world! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/completely-ot-and-kinda-gross-sorry-bugs#post-412256 Sun, 28 Aug 2011 17:42:19 +0000 DressLover 412256@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Ack, Mo! I'm so sorry you are dealing with more yuck bugs! Does that bug in the last picture have striped bands on its body? </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/completely-ot-and-kinda-gross-sorry-bugs#post-412248 Sun, 28 Aug 2011 17:29:22 +0000 Mo 412248@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Can you believe I now have more, new, different bugs?!? Ugh. I'm starting to feel infested! These are upstairs in the bedroom - even more cringe inducing. I emailed the university again. Hey, Steph, care to go double or nothin'? Ha ha! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/completely-ot-and-kinda-gross-sorry-bugs#post-409540 Tue, 23 Aug 2011 20:45:31 +0000 Medicechic 409540@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Glad he is getting better. I was thinking the same thing as Queen Mum... Rat with glasses! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/completely-ot-and-kinda-gross-sorry-bugs#post-409538 Tue, 23 Aug 2011 20:38:54 +0000 Mo 409538@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Thanks for the concern everybody! He is getting better I think. Less scratching. Yay. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/completely-ot-and-kinda-gross-sorry-bugs#post-409537 Tue, 23 Aug 2011 20:37:26 +0000 Louise 409537@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Oh poor kitty, glad you got an answer x </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/completely-ot-and-kinda-gross-sorry-bugs#post-409174 Tue, 23 Aug 2011 04:33:49 +0000 Angie 409174@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Oh no! Keep us posted on Kitty, Malina. All the best. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/completely-ot-and-kinda-gross-sorry-bugs#post-409169 Tue, 23 Aug 2011 04:21:31 +0000 Mo 409169@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>The UF entomology dept verified they are springtails. Good call, Steph! Apparently they should be harmless to kitty. So either it was just a coincidence they happened at the same time or he is possibly allergic? Guess we'll just hope the antibiotics and steroids do their thing. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/completely-ot-and-kinda-gross-sorry-bugs#post-407576 Fri, 19 Aug 2011 11:33:54 +0000 Sparky 407576@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>So sorry to hear about your poor kitty. I thought the same as AG when I saw the photo. Sounds like your kitty is having a bad allergic reaction to the bite. Good luck at the vet's and with identifying the bug! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/completely-ot-and-kinda-gross-sorry-bugs#post-407529 Fri, 19 Aug 2011 05:15:12 +0000 Freckles 407529@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Sorry for your troubles Mo. Hope you find out soon and the vet gets kitty all fixed up. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/completely-ot-and-kinda-gross-sorry-bugs#post-407486 Fri, 19 Aug 2011 02:29:54 +0000 Anonymous 407486@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Poor, poor kitty!!! Hope he doesn't mind the injection too much. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/completely-ot-and-kinda-gross-sorry-bugs#post-407465 Fri, 19 Aug 2011 01:55:52 +0000 Mo 407465@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Steph, funny you should ask right now - we called the vet back just a bit ago. His bumps are spreading It's a steroid injection for kitty tomorrow. As for the bugs, University of FL emailed me back and also suggested springtail due to the curling thing on the right - but they couldn't say for sure without a specimen to examine and added that a springtail would be harmless to the cat . . . . so off to the post office I went this afternoon to mail me some bugs! I hope to hear by the weekend but it may take longer. I will definitely update when I find out! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/completely-ot-and-kinda-gross-sorry-bugs#post-407464 Fri, 19 Aug 2011 01:50:59 +0000 Steph 407464@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Mo, did you determine what it was? I am curious. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/completely-ot-and-kinda-gross-sorry-bugs#post-407042 Thu, 18 Aug 2011 13:15:27 +0000 Queen Mum 407042@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>now that is the weirdest looking bug I've ever seen. It looks like a rat wearing glasses to me. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/completely-ot-and-kinda-gross-sorry-bugs#post-407037 Thu, 18 Aug 2011 13:06:24 +0000 Anonymous 407037@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>That's one ugly bug. I hope poor kitty is feeling better. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/completely-ot-and-kinda-gross-sorry-bugs#post-407028 Thu, 18 Aug 2011 12:58:33 +0000 Anonymous 407028@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Poor sweet kitty!!! Bad bug! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/completely-ot-and-kinda-gross-sorry-bugs#post-406930 Thu, 18 Aug 2011 05:57:05 +0000 Anonymous 406930@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>That is one good looking bug, too bad it's causing so much trouble. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/completely-ot-and-kinda-gross-sorry-bugs#post-406857 Thu, 18 Aug 2011 02:33:15 +0000 taylor 406857@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Poor kitty :(<br /> Last time I was in Florida the bugs were of prehistoric giant proportions!!<br /> This is a really ichy little critter!! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/completely-ot-and-kinda-gross-sorry-bugs#post-406852 Thu, 18 Aug 2011 02:25:56 +0000 Vani 406852@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Aw, I'm so sorry. That is one weird looking bug. Hope kitty feels better soon. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/completely-ot-and-kinda-gross-sorry-bugs#post-406843 Thu, 18 Aug 2011 02:13:58 +0000 Aida 406843@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Huh, I saw raccoon too, wacky. Poor kitty! I hope you get an answer from the University of FL. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/completely-ot-and-kinda-gross-sorry-bugs#post-406779 Thu, 18 Aug 2011 01:13:37 +0000 MNsara 406779@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Oh my gosh, that is the weirdest looking racoonish bug! Now my feet and lower legs are itching -- a lot!!</p> <p>Hope you find out what it is AND how to make them go away! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/completely-ot-and-kinda-gross-sorry-bugs#post-406777 Thu, 18 Aug 2011 01:12:11 +0000 Mo 406777@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I emailed the dept at University of FL - awaiting response. Just hoped by chance someone here might know. It does look like a racoon to me too. Kitty has antibiotics for the secondary infection (bumps all over his neck) but since the vet didn't know what it was, we couldnt' do much more than that for now. I and the BF have not been bitten, thankfully.<br /> I will look up the springtail Steph, thanks. And this is macro on the camera - see my fingernail next to the bug? </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/completely-ot-and-kinda-gross-sorry-bugs#post-406772 Thu, 18 Aug 2011 01:10:15 +0000 Janet 406772@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>The good news is that it doesn't look like a bedbug. I'm sorry your kitty got bitten! Not a flea?</p> <p>Ugh, do yourself a favor and do not do a google image search of "bedbug." *shudder* </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/completely-ot-and-kinda-gross-sorry-bugs#post-406769 Thu, 18 Aug 2011 01:07:09 +0000 Heather 406769@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Una, is right. It does look like a *tiny* raccoon. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/completely-ot-and-kinda-gross-sorry-bugs#post-406767 Thu, 18 Aug 2011 01:05:43 +0000 Steph 406767@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Mo, you could probably take it to the entomology department at a local school. I'm wondering if it could be a springtail. Google springtail and let me know what you think. If it's not a springtail, can you take a closer photo? Maybe use the macro setting on your camera (it looks like a little flower). </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/completely-ot-and-kinda-gross-sorry-bugs#post-406766 Thu, 18 Aug 2011 01:05:39 +0000 catgirl 406766@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>EW! That looks like a microscopic raccoon to my expert eye.</p> <p>Sorry your poor kitty got bit - hopefully someone can help. We have NO fleas, ticks, or mites in Alaska; the buggers freeze to death. </p>