Spring is here, and with it, the start of flea season. With the warming weather, people and their pets are spending more time outside — which increases the chances of bringing home a hungry “itch ...

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 Henry ...

If you thought that we know everything about how the flea jumps, think again. In 1967, Henry Bennet-Clark discovered that fleas store the energy needed to catapult themselves into the air in an ...

A common farm pest appears to have leapfrogged over the flea to claim the unofficial title as the world's best jumper. British researchers say experiments show the spittle bug -- a tiny, green insect ...

Fleas perform an amazing feat when they jump, and the mechanics behind the tiny, bloodsucking pests' acrobatics have been studied -- and debated -- for a long time. But new research may have settled ...

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