Flea close up

LARVAE [view enlargement]	Has three moults L, to L3, gets bigger, 2 - 5 mm. It takes 7 - 1 8 days on average. Free living and crawl about feeding on flea faeces and other organic debris. They move away from light and towards the ground	EGGS [view enlargement]
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White, non-sticky, fall off host everywhere it goes. Hatch on average in 3 - 4 days, An adult flea can lay anything up to 40 eggs a day. The highest concentration of egg laying occurring in the final two to three days of life.

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