Fleas are wingless insects, with tough shiny laterally flattened bodies covered in bristles, making it easy for them to move between the hairs on the back of your dog.
Flea Bite
Adult fleas mouths are modified for sucking blood from their hosts. The itch a bite inflicts is a reaction from the fleas saliva. A flea can survive for a long period of time without feeding, even up to a year. Both males and females suck blood, and it is only after their first feed that they can reproduce.
Flea Egg
Fleas undergo complete metamorphosis. Females lay their eggs on your dog, or perhaps the eggs fall onto your carpet from off your dog. One flea can lay 50 tiny sticky white eggs a day, which hatch into bristly whitish thread like maggots called larva. Larva are scavengers that feed on the hosts dried blood, dead skin, or the excrement of adult fleas.
Flea Larva
In the pupal phase the larva is enclosed in a silk like cocoon where an adult flea is fully developed and ready to emerge. They are encouraged to emerge when they receive a signal that a potential host is near. This might be in the form of vibrations including sound, body heat, or carbon dioxide.
Flea Pupae
Many fleas carry parasites like tapeworm and diseases, as the rat flea did in Europe in the 1300's, when one quarter of the continent's population died from bubonic plague (Black Death).
Tapeworm
Continued exposure to sunlight will kill a flea in any part of it's life cycle.
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