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 ...

Battling fleas is no mere skirmish. These tiny pests hide in everything, even your hardwood floors. Here's how to safely rid ...

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 ...

Don’t try to squish them – fleas jump quickly and can be hard to kill by hand. If you spot any fleas on your pup, be sure to ...

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 ...

Fleas enjoy living in grassy areas where they can hide to wait for a host to jump on. These little pests can hop rather high and often jump from one dog to another. They hide in your dog’s fur t ...

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 ...