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FLEAS (Cat and Dog)

FLEAS (Cat and Dog). By: Sarah Robinson. Description. Size: 1/8 inch (3mm) Color: Very Dark Wingless 3 pair of legs, Third pair modified for jumping Vertically flat like a fish. Classification. Phylum: Arthropoda Subphylum: Hexapoda Class: Insecta SubClass :: Pterogota

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FLEAS (Cat and Dog)

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  1. FLEAS(Cat and Dog) By: Sarah Robinson

  2. Description • Size: 1/8 inch (3mm) • Color: Very Dark • Wingless • 3 pair of legs, Third pair modified for jumping • Vertically flat like a fish

  3. Classification Phylum: Arthropoda Subphylum: Hexapoda Class: Insecta SubClass:: Pterogota Order: Siphonaptera CtenocephalidesCanis(dog fleas) CtenocephalidesFelis (cat fleas)

  4. Geographic Range • EVERY WHERE MAMMALS CAN BE FOUND

  5. HABITAT • THE COOL AND DRIER FALL WEATHER • HOUSE PETS MAINTAIN SMALL FLEA POPULATIONS IN THE WINTER • NUMBERS WILL INCREASE IN THE SPRING • BIGGEST POULATION IN THE SUMMER

  6. Life History • Feeding habits: Flakes of skin Dried Blood Tissue • Reproducing males and females must have blood

  7. Life History • Nesting habits: Fleas nest in there host’s hair • The host is a mammal of some sort • Mostly dogs, cats, and humans

  8. Life History • Reproduction: • Males deposit sperm directly into the reproductive organs of the females. The male will clasp on to the sides of a female. With special claspers at the tip of his abdomen he locks his body to the tip of the females abdomen.

  9. Life History • Life Cycle • Female fleas lay eggs in host’s hair • The egg drops off and hatches into a tiny, hairy worm like larvae. • Larvae pupate and new adults find a host immediately and eat • They need blood to survive and produce eggs.

  10. Life History • Care of young: Fleas don’t care for there young they lay there eggs and leave • Special adaptation: Some believe the third leg was an adaptation so the flea could jump easier and faster, but there's no hard evidence • Resent studies: there are no resent studies that I could discover

  11. References • adult flea. (n.d.). Retrieved 2010, from Do it Yourselp pest control: www.pestproducts.com • Day, E. (1996). Fleas. Retrieved 2010, from http://sites.ext.vt.edu/departments/entomology/factsheets/fleas.html • Dittmar. (n.d.). About Fleas. Retrieved 2010, from Web.mac.com • Fleas: Siphonaptera. (2010). Retrieved 2010, from http://animals.jrank.org/pages/2490/Fleas-Siphonaptera.html • Kozhukhov, O. (2007). Everything about fleas. Retrieved 2010, from Everything about: http://www.everythingabout.net/articles/biology/animals/arthropods/insects/flea/ • Pickering, J. (2010, February 15). Discover Life. Retrieved 2010, from Discover Life: www.discoverlife.org

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