Flea

Cat flea to be precise, and its sucking my blood! I took a few shots of it before allowing it to ascend to flea heaven, the blood (mine!) is coming out its rear and you can see it splattered on my hairs, I guess they don't know when to stop feeding - like you needed to know that

Shot using G3 and reverse 50mm lens as no way I could use a DSLR as was biting my leg - the benefits of a swivel screen.

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Wonderful capture - must admit I draw the line at letting bugs feed on me (on purpose that is).
Brian V.

Hiya Biko,
Great capture, love it, 1st Flea shot I've seen to date & havin a scoff as well .
Cheers for now
Mark

Awesome shot!

Wow... The first flea shot I've seen too What a shot!!!

Yikes!!! Where there is one there are likely to be many more...

Nice shot

Biko: Excellent sacrifice for this outstanding shot....Way to go.....Alex

yuck, great capture - the blood bubble really makes it.

Thanks for the feedback

dazzlebea wrote in post #2220177
Yikes!!! Where there is one there are likely to be many more...

Nice shot

There sure are and hoping its over the worst now - the cats get flea collars every month but I reckon I got a dud batch, visit to the vets and £40 ($70) later I have "nuke' em" anti flea stuff for the cats

We have had loads and decided "ok lets get a pic of one" I rolled up my trouser legs (I am not a mason BTW ) got camera and waited - I felt my left leg would be best as easier to manouvere camera, so offered it a little bit out where I reckon the critters are and wait.

Ping! one jumps on right ankle rear (typical!) check it settles down, dam its not easy as I twist leg slowly up to camera. It looks settled so move in, another jumps on and procceeds to get some lunch - do I kill it and maybe spook the other? Decide to let them feast, (the dark patch bottom of the pick is the other one). Check camera and focus is ok, I now have a dead leg and two fleas that have sucked their last blood!

I did ask the wife to be good enough to allow the fleas to model on her leg but well lets say I can't repeat her reply being a family forum.

Awesome shot!!!

*scratches* I'm assuming you got Frontline from the vets. Expensive stuff eh?

You're brave! This is a great capture I don't see a lot of flea shots here. The only other one I saw was posted by BE last year (if my memory serves ).

Great stuff!!

You need to make sure you don't get any worms.

Talk to your vet about FRONTLINE. It's a flea and tick control product that really works. Beats the collars and powders hands down. Living with 3 cats and 2 dogs in the southern US, I used to have a flea problem every summer. Here's a link to the company's website (and no, I don't work for them -- I'm just a very satisfied customer):

http://frontline.us.me​rial.com/home/

hay did my flea get out of my post

anyhoo nice shot

i use johnson's 4fleas tablets they work so fast 1 tab and in 10 minutes the fleas are droping off the cat dead