Pest Management Professional, September 2013
believe it or not FLEAS TICKS N A T I O N W I D E BIRD DOCTOR NATIONWIDE Pays commissions for your bird control leads throughout the U S We Service Nationwide For more information call or email Stuart Aust President and CEO stuart@ birddoctorinc com www birddoctorinc com 1 800 825 1151 Fleas have been on this planet for about 100 million years There are more than 2000 species and subspecies of fleas that we know of If it doesnt have to move around much a flea can live anywhere between 2 months and 100 days between meals If they were human sized athletes participating in the Olympics long jump certain fleas could break the current world record by about 970 feet A female flea lays eggs within 35 to 48 hours of its first blood meal There are more than 800 species of ticks on this planet There are anti inflammatory and anesthetic compounds in the saliva of hard ticks that make it less likely for their hosts to notice theyve been bitten The saliva of hard ticks contain proteins with changing compositions making it difficult for a hosts immune system to detect a threat which decreases the likelihood the hosts immune system will recognize its being compromised Male ticks die right after mating The majority of ticks use three hosts feeding on a different host for the larvae nymph and adult life stages respectively Like mites scorpions and spiders ticks belong to the Arachnida class Hard ticks have a long feeding session whereas soft ticks have several feeding sessions separated by a few hours Source www petcarerx com
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