Please help me indentify this bug

Don Klipstein

2008-08-21 05:48:21 UTC

Post by gpsman
to alt.consumers.pest-control>

I had a problem with woodpeckers about 8 years ago. I finally found out
what they were after. I sprayed down my house with an insecticide after the
house was powerwashed. I filled the holes with caulk, before re-staining.
Now, these darn things are back. Not in droves, but just enough to drive me
crazy.
I was freshening up some trim work, and one of these darn bugs got on my
hand, and bit me. I have a welt/bump on my hand, which itches like crazy.
It's like a mosquito bite, but larger. I had a couple of bites on my legs,
and thought it was mosquitoes, but now figure maybe it was these pesky
little critters.
Anyways, this is in Northeast Ohio. I looked here in an attempt to match up
the bug, no such luck.http://ohioline.osu.edu/b512/index.html
The closest thing is the springtail bug. But, I don't think that is it.
Here's a link to some pictures of this little critter. The pictures are the
best I could do with my camera. This is really a tiny little pest. Any help
would be appreciated.
http://picasaweb.google.com/Roofguy35/Bugs

Looks like a thrip to me, but I'm rusty, lazy, and tough to get
interested.

Although there are several photos, I cannot see whether that bug is a
thrip, a springtail or a bristletail.

If these bugs jump, then then that means they are highly likely
springtails. I have seen plenty of thrips and springtails!
I give this lower chance since my recollections of springtails is that
they highly usually tuck their tails under their bodies into "pre-launch
position".
Also, I have managed to not yet see a bristletail. Springtails and
bristletails are both notably more primitive insects, with some springtails
having some argument to being of a class of arthropods other than insects
despite being hexapods - with arguably-non-insect wingless orders/families
of hexapod arthropods being in the "class" Entognatha, amounting to as much
as 3 orders.

Please keep in mind that earwigs and more-so silverfish are "more-original"
insects (unusually wingless) that appear to me to push towards border
between insects and Entognatha.

Entognatha and arguably-Entognatha largely lack the metamorphosis of
insects.

On the other extreme, fleas have 5 stages of life cycle, as in a step
above that of the other more-metamorphosing orders of insects!

Egg-larva-pupa-nymph-adult is the 5-distinct-form life cycle that fleas
have, while most other insects have 3-4 stages.

- Don Klipstein (***@misty.com)