Fleas

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• Flea fossils date back to the Lower Cretaceous period, meaning fleas have been around for about 100 million years. At that time, their neighbors might have been a Tyrannosaurus Rex or Triceratops!
• Some fleas can jump 150 times their own length. That compares to a human jumping 300 meters. One flea broke a record with a four-foot vertical jump.
• Undisturbed and without a blood meal, a flea can live more than 100 days. On average, they live two to three months.
• Female fleas cannot lay eggs until after their first blood meal and begin to lay eggs within 36-48 hours after that meal.
• The female flea can lay 2,000 eggs in her lifetime
• The female flea consumes 15 times her own body weight in blood daily.
• While adult fleas all suck blood from a cat or dog or other mammal, their larvae live and feed on organic debris in the host animal's environment.
• Flea larvae are blind.
• If you happen to see one flea, there may be more than 100 offspring or adults looming nearby in furniture, corners, cracks, carpet or on your pet.
• Fleas are often confused with bedbugs, lice and ticks.
• The largest recorded flea is the North American Hystrichopsylla schefferi, measuring 12mm in length - almost 1/2-inch!