sand flea
sand hopper

When she told him his blood pressure was high, he brushed it off like a sand flea.

The mosquitoes and sand fleas he found more difficult to accept.

Or maybe that was more of what she labeled sand flea thinking, and not even worth mentioning.

What bothered him were sand fleas, which would burrow under his skin.

Country so barren scorpions and sand fleas could not make a living there.

For the moment, the doctor detected no sand fleas.

"They're sand fleas," Adam said, not bothering to look back at her.

Many vicious mosquitoes and sand fleas out here tonight.

"Get me a Sand Flea and a driver," he said.

He held out a sand flea to Willy.

They live in the dust, like sand fleas.

Every sand flea for miles around jumped on Lucy, who was sinking into a terrible mood.

And if the Gila monsters don't get you, the sand fleas will.

Try to get the sand fleas off as you put on your boots, too - though they don't really matter."

Once we had Martian sand fleas, but no more."

There were more than a dozen of them and they jumped and kicked like sand fleas.

But the rags that clothed him held nothing but salt and sand fleas.

Luckily, he had not been completely deserted-the Sand Fleas were still left.

There was obviously someone at home, for a small Sand Flea was parked outside the building.

There was a slight pause; then the driver started the engine and the Sand Flea began to move off.

Graham caught four snappers, using sand fleas for bait.

By 8:45 p.m., the sun has set and the sand fleas are back.

You feel the sting of sand fleas.

The culprit was something like a sand flea, which, you will note, has a taste for warm-blooded critters.

They could be set to detect an object as small as a sand flea crossing their scan-field.

You may have caught him imitating sand hoppers and sundry creepy-crawlies on the current David Bellamy TV series.

Sand Hoppers (Collins, 1946)

The many inhabitants of the tidal flats include lugworms, polchaete worms, sand hoppers and other amphipod crustaceans, and gastropod molluscs.

Three more turnstones scooped up sand, pushing with the tops of bills and leaving tiny dark streaks and spattered sand grains which showed where they had dug, excavating for sand hoppers.

The Amphipoda is a highly diverse group of 8,000 species, ranging from the Caprellida with a long and narrow body shape (skeleton shrimp) to the shrimp-like Gammaridea (scuds and sand hoppers).

On a beach in New Zealand, to approach a reclusive kiwi on a night prowl for sand hoppers, he rolled in rotting seaweed to take on the smell of his surroundings, then crept through the sand, milling with the tiny crustaceans.

Although similar to the S7 Stock which will be used on the District, Circle and Hammersmith & City lines, the main differences were the layout and quantity of seats and the provision of two active sand hoppers for each rail due to the different conditions at the country end of the line.