Collembola, Three pictures

[Robin]

Hello all,
I actually found one a couple of yrs ago and that sucker moved around the cool whip container all night long you could hear the movement! that was the only one that ever moved like that! but honestly i was way to sick at the time it really freaked me out! Dandruff is contagious! i wonder ,it also is a fungus.maybe it is all the same. i believe there are many people who have this disease and have no clue to what lies ahead nor that they have it! unfortunate because this would be the time to kill it without it progressing.
Best Wishes
Robin

[Doc Holliday]

Originally Posted by JimDoe

Yeah Doc, mine looked like dandruff to without magnification, but under a 10x Mag glass I could make out some of its body structure. Back when I did bleach bathes and one night I took a high octane 40 minute soak I wrapped in the covers and slept like a baby. The next morning I looked into the mirror and saw attached to the fine hairs on my temple what looked like lint. Tried to lightly brush it off with my fingers but did not budge. Then forcefuly brushed at it. Still attached. Took a closer look and saw it all to be indivually hooked shaped. There were at least 150 maybe double that. They sickly left my scalp because of the bleach bath then latched on and died like in a herd at that one spot. Crazy Man! Jim

>>>>>>>why......Jim!,......the same happened to me,....but all in my head hair,.... did the same,...couldn't get thos. little bugger's out no matter what,....then got ticked off,.and had my head shaved twice,....by my Dad,.... took all the precautions I could think of,...to make sure my family was safe,...because I new what I was going through,....Jim! ...1 thing though,..one day I felt a bite on mt leg,...you know the kind,... that make ya jump a bit,..and say what was that,...the weird thing is,...my friend down the hall where I live,....had this before me,.....she had lesion's all over,.from head to toe,...when she thought she had fleas,....and 2 flea infested cat's,.....so I got infected by her and her cat's,.after helping her out,....but after that bite,...it took 2 weeks before any lesions,....then 6 to 7 month's later before I thought I had a bad case of dandruff,...my head was full of these things that is so weird!!! how after a bite,..do ya get a head full of these thing,...help me out here,...I don't understand some thing,...or it isn't making sense. ....Thanks Jim!,.....Doc ,...........Hi Robin darlen!....... ..........Robin!,....what ever eats deficates!,...that might be the fungi part,....unless the fungi have a symbiotic relationship w/the critter,....makes me wounder???? and most folk that have this,..have or had head scratching problems,...and some think it's eating their hair,...in my case,...the hair on my arms has been disappearing -----go figure??

[JimDoe]

Hello Doc

I had many hundreds if not thousands of Collembola living inside my scalp, plus fleas tunneled under the skin. The worst were the thrips they are larger and leave behind a nasty cacoon in the skin.The fleas made small sores and bumps and the thrips made large throbbing open sores. The Collembola just mostly moved and itched and stung some from nipping at the open sores. What I finally did to rid all of them was cut hair fairly short then apply selsom blue leaving a good wet lather then added one handful of table salt worked it in to disolve all i could. Then just sat at the puter for about two hours. After about a hour I felt them crawling out and even sliding and dropping off the side of my face. Not sure the salt really killed them but it sure drove them all out and took about four of these two hour sessions to get them all. I also had fleas in the carpet maybe Collembola as well from a dog I used to own. So I sprinkled a few boxes of salt over all my carpet furniture and bedding put a plastic sheet over the bed after. A week later no more fleas drove them out I guess. I think the fleas burrowed under my skin to better get at my blood which has fungus living in me. I still have fungus. And I still sometimes get a new bug in my scalp and have to do the two hour soak again. But anyone reeading this be warned this salt and selsum treatment really burns if you have any open sores. The first time I could only keep it on for a few minutes, salt helps heal wounds quicker and eventually was able to keep it on longer. All my bugs I beleive were after the fungus.

[mmarsha]

Here is a case study i just ran across and thought it was interesting and maybe important for some one?? The pics would not post...

By C.Terinte M.D.,N.I.Dulceanu D.V.M.,PhD,R.Terinte M.D.,G.Dobrescu M.D. PhD

coll2-ic

Coll2: A clinical and paraclinical investigation on a
80-years-old woman who claimed a "beetles attack".
A 80-years-old woman presented with pruritus, insomnia, anxiety,
paleness, weight loss (7 Kg in 6 months), and loss of appetite.
In the lumbar region, on the buttocks, on the right posterior hemithorax
and interdigitally on both feets she had small ulcers of 0.5-1 cm in diameter,
surrounded by an indurated congestive or cyanotic, ovoid area of 1 x 1.5 cm.
Small scars, with furfuraceous, dry and gray exfoliation on round and
linear zones of 20-25 x 4-5 cm., were observed in the submammalian region.
Linear short subepidermic truncated trajects were also observed.
The microscopic examination of the hypodermic material obtained
by scraping, revealed an adult Collembola spp. insect, eggs,
cocoons of different colours, piles, a pupa, an exuvium and larvae.

Histological findings


By C.Terinte M.D.,N.I.Dulceanu D.V.M.,PhD,R.Terinte M.D.,G.Dobrescu M.D.PhD

coll3-ic

Coll3: The histological investigation revealed thickening and
erosion of the epidermis, and isolated or confluent blood gaps.


By C.Terinte M.D.,N.I.Dulceanu D.V.M.,PhD,R.Terinte M.D.,G.Dobrescu M.D.PhD

coll4-ic

Coll4: In the epidermis spaces were present binding up larvae and nymphs.
The horny layer was hyperkeratotic and included the adult insect.


By C.Terinte M.D.,N.I.Dulceanu D.V.M.,PhD,R.Terinte M.D.,G.Dobrescu M.D.PhD By C.Terinte M.D.,N.I.Dulceanu D.V.M.,PhD,R.Terinte M.D.,G.Dobrescu M.D.PhD

coll5-ic coll6-ic

Coll5-6 :The blood gaps were probably caused by the histophagy of the insect.
Intraepidermic bullae covered by a thin corneous layer and ulcers were also observed.


Piles and eggs


By C.Terinte M.D.,N.I.Dulceanu D.V.M.,PhD,R.Terinte M.D.,G.Dobrescu M.D.PhD

coll7-ic

Coll7: Six egg piles were observed into the epidermic material.
Four to 22 eggs were present in each pile, cemented together with a glue-like secretion.
The piles were elongated, round, with a small, cylindric, blunt and short appendix.
The piles measured 144-306 by 162-378 µm, while eggs (spherical to oval)
were 35-140 by 35-123 µm (average 78 by 88 µm).

Exuvium


By C.Terinte M.D.,N.I.Dulceanu.D.V.M.,PhD,R.Terinte M.D.,G.Dobrescu M.D.PhD

coll8-ic

Coll8: The exuvium , the larval or nimphal cuticle, was translucide,
very thin, composed of four distinct zones: a globulous apical pole,
a narrow neck, a brown collar and a big, thin body of the exuvium.

Larval stage


By C.Terinte M.D.,N.I.Dulceanu D.V.M.,PhD,R.Terinte M.D.,G.Dobrescu M.D.PhD

coll9-ic

Coll9: Larvae were divided in three segments:
a) an anterior, mobile, cylindric one with two subterminally mandibular pieces;
b) a middle ovoid segment covered by a rigid cuticle;
c) a caudal segment, frayed, with three terminal sharp apexes
for the fixation to the substrate.

Pupa


By C.Terinte M.D.,N.I.Dulceanu D.V.M.,PhD,R.Terinte M.D.,G.Dobrescu M.D.PhD

coll10-ic

Coll10: The pupa was brownish, oval, measuring 2,280 mm by 720 µm.

Adult insect


By C.Terinte M.D.,N.I.Dulceanu D.V.M.,PhD,R.Terinte M.D.,G.Dobrescu M.D.PhD

coll11-ic

Coll11: The adult insect, pink-reddish, measured 810 by 270 µm,
with antennas of 396 µm in lenght formed by four articles.
The apical segment of the antennas was long with a scalp-like shape.
All antenna segments were hairy.
The head was anterior flattened and measured 216 by 126 µm.
Both the head and the body of the insect were covered by short,
thick, chitinous hairs grouped in tufts.
Thick and flat tubercles were visible dorsally on the posterior part
of the abdomen, while ventrally the jumping apparatus was located,
with the furca, formed by two articles.
The apparatus is obliquely and forward oriented and is covered
by rare hairs and measures almost 2/3 of the abdomen lenght.

Go to atlas of parasitology and type in Collembola to see pics...

[Janice]

Boy, if those fugus fibers dont look like what is taking over my body!

[mmarsha]

Originally Posted by Janice

Boy, if those fugus fibers dont look like what is taking over my body!

yes indeed!!