Pets are one of life’s most joyous treasures—but the fleas that can often come along with them are anything but. Even if you ...

Bennet-Clark: described the idea that fleas might jump off their trochanters as ‘about as silly as saying you could jump out of a chair by clenching your buttocks’ - Courtesy of Kate Jones ...

In its early days the ukulele was known as a jumping flea because of the players’ fingers dancing about quickly! There are three verses with the same words to say and play each time, but singing ...

When a flea infests your dog, it will jump on them, take a blood meal, which means bite, suck their blood, and during that process will produce thousands and thousands of eggs as well. You will ...

Dr Tim Cockerill claims to be able to make a flea jump through a hoop on demand but won’t divulge his secret! To misquote Mrs Beeton, ‘first catch your flea’. This was easily done at the ...

This helps prevent fleas from jumping up your dog's back during a bath. Additionally, the shampoo should be left on the skin for several minutes before rinsing to give the active ingredients time ...

If you find something that resembles a flea but you're not sure, a good indicator is that they will jump, not crawl, around. Flea combs have very tightly spaced teeth, which are designed to pull ...

The legs are relatively long, the hind ones with especially large coxae to enable jumping, and the five-segmented tarsi have prehensile claws. The adult flea is highly adept at jumping, facilitated by ...