Flea is the common name Aptera insects belong to the order Siphonaptera. Some scientists use and the earlier term Afaniptera. These are external parasites that feed on the blood of mammals and birds. Because of disease, are very dangerous insects and combated with insecticides and other ways.
Description
The length of insects ranging from 1.5 to 3.3 mm. They usually have brown. In short head bearing antennae and mouth are sucking institutions with which suck the blood. Their body is laterally compressed to allow the animals to move around in the fur or feathers of their victims (or their people, under clothing) and the back of the ring consists of eight number. Their legs are long, allowing wingless pests to perform big jumps and back are larger than the front. As a result the body is tilted forward. The jumps they do is about 200 times larger than the length of their bodies, making these animals the best jumpers among known animals, compared to their body size. Characteristic of their body is also the hardness, which allows you to withstand the pressure, such as scratching. Glossy and is covered by a plurality of bristles and short spines, which are directed backwards and help inter alia the movements of the flea in the host.
Reproduction
The female flea lays small, white eggs in places that do not have light and angles of homes with dust. The eggs hatch and there is growing larvae, which resemble worms. The larvae form vomvykio ( cocoon ) and transformed into perfect insects . They have eyes, but the mouth develop institutions that allow them to chew. Although the adult fleas are exclusively fed with blood, the larvae feed on organic materials, including mature flea feces.
Risk and control
Biting fleas are so annoying as it causes intense itching, and dangerous because these animals are intermediate hosts for many parasites. In this way can facilitate the spread of epidemics.
Items
The famous flea species include the following :
• Cat flea (Ctenocephalides felis),
• Dog Flea (Ctenocephalides canis),
• Flea human or irritating flea (Pulex irritans), the most representative species.
• Flea rat North (Nosopsyllus fasciatus),
• Oriental rat flea (Xenopsylla cheopis).
There is a solution.
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