Quote Originally Posted by Pythonfriend View Post
some photography with high resolution and/or a macro lens would certainly be helpful right now.

generally, a hard shell and a hard body tends to be bad news, because blood-suckers and parasites tend to wear armor like that. the harmless ones often have a body that is so soft that they turn into a smudge, you dont feel them with your fingers because they are too soft and your finger is too hard.
Can you check than this, which was taken high res with macro lens !
http://shrani.si/f/1o/uJ/4Dr9PxhU/timg3072.jpg
http://shrani.si/f/z/lj/3xaj1WMG/timg3078.jpg
http://shrani.si/f/1s/96/1VTTzevZ/timg3079.jpg


As far the thread goes

OP should have access to BioKill it's sold widely over Europe. I had the same problem except that NIX could be found at some pharmacies. And I also wrote a thread ~ 1 month ago about this substitute. It's permethrin dilluted with water.

Here's the link for one online store from UK that sells it so I presume it's available everywhere like here where you can get it mostly all grocery shops.

http://www.suttons.co.uk/Gardening/G...ler_240855.htm

And here's the link to what this actually is:
http://www.jesmond.co.at/wp-content/...BKC-MKTG-E.pdf