Summary[
edit] Description: English: Fleas (lat. Siphonaptera) is a detachment of bloodsucking arthropod insects with complete metamorphosis. The flea is a carrier of various human and warm-blooded animal pathogens. In the photo, a human flea (lat. Pulex irritans) is one of the most common types of fleas that lives everywhere. A brownish-colored insect, 1.6-3.2 mm long, is capable of jumping 30 cm in height and up to half a meter in length. Unlike most flea species, the human flea does not have pectoral and head teeth. The insect is parasitic on humans, domestic and wild animals, it suffers the causative agent of plague, causes pulikosis (itchy skin lesion). Human fleas can also live on cats, dogs, horses, that is, animals that have constant contact with humans. The total duration of blood digestion in a human flea is 5-6 hours. The duration of bloodsucking can vary from a few seconds to 20 minutes.English: Fleas (lat. Siphonaptera) is a detachment of bloodsucking arthropod insects with complete metamorphosis. The flea is a carrier of various human and warm-blooded animal pathogens. In the photo, a human flea (lat. Pulex irritans) is one of the most common types of fleas that lives everywhere. A brownish-colored insect, 1.6-3.2 mm long, is capable of jumping 30 cm in height and up to half a meter in length. Unlike most flea species, the human flea does not have pectoral and head teeth. The insect is parasitic on humans, domestic and wild animals, it suffers the causative agent of plague, causes pulikosis (itchy skin lesion). Human fleas can also live on cats, dogs, horses, that is, animals that have constant contact with humans. The total duration of blood digestion in a human flea is 5-6 hours. The duration of bloodsucking can vary from a few seconds to 20 minutes. Date: 15 February 2019, 15:32:53. Source: Own work. Author:
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