are lice/mites visible to the naked eye?

[piggiemummy03x]

hi everyone, i was wondering if lice/mites can be see by the naked eye? upon cleaning the wall to the back of my girls hay boxes i have found little bugs crawling all over the back of the wall, i cant upload a video so i have zoomed in screen shots. i check my girls for lice regularly and cant ever find any but now wondering if i just miss them? please help, it’s really stressing me out

 

[Piggies&buns]

Lice are visible - pale/light coloured crawling creatures which will be in their hair
Mites are not visible - you can only see their eggs as black specks stuck to their hair

Whatever is on the cage is probably not mites or lice but instead a different type of bug

 

[Wiebke]

Hi

Please give your premises a thorough deep clean with F10.

Guinea pig skin parasites can only live on a guinea pig's body; they die very, very quickly otherwise. Only lice are visible; they are small pale crawling things in a piggy coat.
Anything else that moves in a cage/hutch is a non-specific bug; a good clean should take care of it but it is not a risk to your guinea pigs.

 

[piggiemummy03x]

Lice are visible - pale/light coloured crawling creatures which will be in their hair
Mites are not visible - you can only see their eggs as black specks stuck to their hair

Whatever is on the cage is probably not mites or lice but instead a different type of bug

theses little bugs are pale/light hence the worry! iv checked the girls over multiple times and they just have a few bits of dry skin, nothing moving.

i really hope so!

 

[piggiemummy03x]

Hi

Please give your premises a thorough deep clean with F10.

Guinea pig skin parasites can only live on a guinea pig's body; they die very, very quickly otherwise. Only lice are visible; they are small pale crawling things in a piggy coat.
Anything else that moves in a cage/hutch is a non-specific bug; a good clean should take care of it but it is not a risk to your guinea pigs.

hiya,
okay thankyou, by premises, do you mean everything in the room? can i spray f10 cleaner on everything / house hold things? we’ve checked the other walls in the room and they are just crawling on the wall behind the hay boxes, directly below the guinea pig cage, so if they where pig parasites they would definitely be on my girls wouldn’t they?

 

[piggiemummy03x]

Hi

Please give your premises a thorough deep clean with F10.

Guinea pig skin parasites can only live on a guinea pig's body; they die very, very quickly otherwise. Only lice are visible; they are small pale crawling things in a piggy coat.
Anything else that moves in a cage/hutch is a non-specific bug; a good clean should take care of it but it is not a risk to your guinea pigs.

is the spray safe to use around my girls? how long should i keep them out the room after spraying or can they come in pretty much straight after?

 

[Piggies&buns]

hiya,
okay thankyou, by premises, do you mean everything in the room? can i spray f10 cleaner on everything / house hold things? we’ve checked the other walls in the room and they are just crawling on the wall behind the hay boxes, directly below the guinea pig cage, so if they where pig parasites they would definitely be able to get on them wouldn’t they?

They are not going to be piggy parasites - piggy parasites will not survive off of the pigs

F10 is safe to be used around them.

 

[piggiemummy03x]

They are not going to be piggy parasites - piggy parasites will not survive off of the pigs

F10 is safe to be used around them.

thankyou - i apologise for how worried i get!

 

[Piggies&buns]

thankyou - i apologise for how worried i get!

you don’t need to apologise! We all understand

 

[Wiebke]

you don’t need to apologise! We all understand

I would move them out of the room while you deep clean (in a pinch a shower floor or bathtub with an old bath/beach towel for grip will do) and wipe everything down; including any hard piggy furniture, but F10 is safe to use around guinea pigs.

In a much smaller concentration it can be used as an antiseptic for inhaling for guinea pigs with respiratort illness, for instance.

 

[piggiemummy03x]

I would move them out of the room while you deep clean (in a pinch a shower floor or bathtub with an old bath/beach towel for grip will do) and wipe everything down; including any hard piggy furniture, but F10 is safe to use around guinea pigs.

In a much smaller concentration it can be used as an antiseptic for inhaling for guinea pigs with respiratort illness, for instance.

thankyou so much! f10 is the disinfectant that you can leave to dry and not wipe away isnt it?

oh wow!