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Fleas

parasitic, blood-sucking, wingless insects comprising the order siphonaptera.


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experiment design

I was thinking maybe putting daphnia into the tank then adding the fish and recording when ever the fish ate the daphnia and adding water fleas as they were consumed and end the trail when th fish stops eating will that be good ? how would i put that into a graph though ?

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by martyn
Sun Sep 30, 2007 9:06 pm
 
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: experiment design
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Views: 985

Small worms on floor.

... lifted the towel and found numerous, small curling dark worms. They had migrated to a bag of cloth diapers next to the drawer. I've seen about 4-5 fleas in the house and the cat has been scratching. My son is being eaten alive each night. (another bedroom). My question is, are these flea larvae ...

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by tescgrad
Wed Jul 11, 2007 8:11 am
 
Forum: Microbiology
Topic: Small worms on floor.
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Views: 2389

The Fiber Disease

... mirror, but saw nothing unusual. A short while later Debbie felt something biting her legs and face. Pulling back the covers, she expected to find fleas. Instead she saw tiny black specks on her side of the sheets. Strange, she thought, that whatever it was had left Jerry alone. But the biting ...

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by Sabrina
Thu Jan 18, 2007 2:24 am
 
Forum: Human Biology
Topic: The Fiber Disease
Replies: 7403
Views: 748763

The Fiber Disease

... Rev. Microbiol. 49:711). Infections by some agents are facilitated by insect transmission, for example, Bartonella spp. infections transmitted by fleas, lice or ticks are introduced into cats, dogs, humans and other mammals (see, e.g., Shaw et al., (2001) Trends Parasitol. 17:74; Munana et al. ...

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by Nadas Moksha
Tue Nov 28, 2006 6:52 pm
 
Forum: Human Biology
Topic: The Fiber Disease
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fastest animal

... it would need to run at ~120 mph. Which it can't. And a flea definately jumps over 35 times its BL a second. 'Spittle' bugs are even better then fleas. They accelerate into a jump at over 400x the force of gravity. But fleas, only 130+. They are darn fine jumpers.

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by ShadowBlade
Mon Nov 27, 2006 3:50 pm
 
Forum: Zoology Discussion
Topic: fastest animal
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