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Mar 6, 2009 14:39
15 yrs ago
English term

wood flea

English Art/Literary Biology (-tech,-chem,micro-)
What species of insect is that? Could anybody give me the Latin name, please?
Responses
2 Trombicula alfreddugesi/chigger
4 +1 Limnoria lignorum
3 Podura plumbea

Discussion

allp (asker) Mar 13, 2009:
Thank you for all the answers. I have done some searching and found out that Limnoria lignorum and Podura plumbea both feed on timber and the latter is an European species, therefore I decided to choose Kathryn's answer as best fitting my context.
allp (asker) Mar 6, 2009:
right. Sorry for not having given the context earlier, I did not think that the name could relate to several species. The context is a journey through North Carolina's forests.
"I inspected his skin minutely every morning, picking voracious ticks and wood fleas from his crevices" ('he' is a man).
Kathryn Litherland Mar 6, 2009:
Could you provide more context? I'm more inclined to think its some species of springtail (Susan's answer) than some species gribble (David's), but knowing if it's land or aquatic, the country, and what sort of chemical, would help.

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Trombicula alfreddugesi/chigger

I'm going to suggest the North American "chigger" (Trombicula alfreddugesi) because it's a skin-crawling/crevice-seeking biting insect common in the region and that you would pick up tramping through the woods. I've never heard it called a "wood flea," but it's the only think I can think of that makes sense in the context.

The species of actual fleas that are attracted to humans don't normally live in the woods, and the species of fleas that infest woodland animals aren't terribly attracted to humans (and fleas in general don't hide out in body crevices).

"Chiggers
HYG-2100-98
William F. Lyon
Common Name Scientific Name
Chigger Trombicula alfreddugesi (Oudemans)
Jigger
Red Bug

Probably no creature on earth can cause as much torment for its size than the tiny chigger. Tiny six-legged chigger larvae attack campers, picnickers, hikers, bird watchers, berry pickers, fishermen, soldiers, and homeowners in low, damp areas where vegetation is rank such as woodlands, berry patches, orchards, along lakes and streams, and even in drier places where vegetation is low such as lawns, golf courses, and parks."
http://ohioline.osu.edu/hyg-fact/2000/2100.html
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4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer. Comment: "It seems that you are right, Kathryn. Anyway, I'll go for the chigger. Thank you :)"
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Limnoria lignorum

http://www.archive.org/stream/woodotherorganic00snowrich/woo...

THE LIMNORIA (Limnoria lignorum). -This isopod crusta-
cean, which has other names as
the wood flea, sand flea, gribble,
and boring gribble, is the prin-
cipal one of several similar
forms that attack woods when
in sea-water.




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Limnoria lignorum (Limnoriidae) - the gribbles
Limnoria Lignorum adult. Resemble an ordinary wood louse, 6 mm in length with 7 pairs of ... Limnoria lignorum damage. Feeds gregariously on marine pilings. ...
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Limnoria lignorum (crustacean) -- Britannica Online Encyclopedia
Britannica online encyclopedia article on Limnoria lignorum (crustacean), Limnoria lignorum, which occurs throughout the seas of the Northern Hemisphere, ...
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Limnoria lignorum*
Dec 19, 2008 ... tals taken from sections of cells of the midgut glands of Limnoria lignorum fixed in buffered osmium tetroxide. ...
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SEASONAL MIGRATIONS OF THE WOOD-BORER LIMNORIA LIGNORUM (RATHKE ...
Wooden test pieces were exposed to settlement of Limnoria lignorum in successive two and three-month periods from September 5, 1933 to September 8, 1934. ...
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Limnoria lignorum ingest bacterial and fungal degraded wood
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Podura plumbea

Elements of Physical Manipulation - Resultaten voor Zoeken naar boeken met Google
door Edward Charles Pickering - 2008 - History - 244 pagina’s


... defining power is the marking of the scales of the wood-flea (Podura plumbea), ... For instance, the three species, formogum, hippocampus and anyulatum, ...
books.google.nl/books?isbn=0554881640...
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