Eddie The Bugman
~Please, Just Make Sure You Jump In The Other Direction~
This was a very unexpected surprise, I turned over a small bit of bark that was lying on the ground and I noticed this little one. Imust admit I have never found one of these on a macro hunt before, this is a member of the order Siphonaptera, commonly known to us as the FLEA!!!!!
I am not sure as to what type of Flea this is, it was found in a Deer Park, but there are many other potential hosts. Anyway, pretty sure it did not jump onto me, but even finding one is guaranteed to set off the psychosomatic itching LOL.
Fleas are the insects forming the order Siphonaptera. They are wingless, with mouthparts adapted for piercing skin and sucking blood. Fleas are external parasites, living by hematophagy off the blood of mammals (including bats and humans) and birds.
Fleas are wingless insects (1/16 to 1/8-inch (1.5 to 3.3 mm) long) that are agile, usually dark colored (for example, the reddish-brown of the cat flea), with tube-like mouth-parts adapted to feeding on the blood of their hosts. Their legs are long, the hind pair well adapted for jumping: a flea can jump vertically up to 7 inches (18 cm) and horizontally up to 13 inches (33 cm). This is around 200 times their own body length, making the flea one of the best jumpers of all known animals (relative to body size), second only to the froghopper.
VIEW ON BLACK (if you dare)
~Please, Just Make Sure You Jump In The Other Direction~
This was a very unexpected surprise, I turned over a small bit of bark that was lying on the ground and I noticed this little one. Imust admit I have never found one of these on a macro hunt before, this is a member of the order Siphonaptera, commonly known to us as the FLEA!!!!!
I am not sure as to what type of Flea this is, it was found in a Deer Park, but there are many other potential hosts. Anyway, pretty sure it did not jump onto me, but even finding one is guaranteed to set off the psychosomatic itching LOL.
Fleas are the insects forming the order Siphonaptera. They are wingless, with mouthparts adapted for piercing skin and sucking blood. Fleas are external parasites, living by hematophagy off the blood of mammals (including bats and humans) and birds.
Fleas are wingless insects (1/16 to 1/8-inch (1.5 to 3.3 mm) long) that are agile, usually dark colored (for example, the reddish-brown of the cat flea), with tube-like mouth-parts adapted to feeding on the blood of their hosts. Their legs are long, the hind pair well adapted for jumping: a flea can jump vertically up to 7 inches (18 cm) and horizontally up to 13 inches (33 cm). This is around 200 times their own body length, making the flea one of the best jumpers of all known animals (relative to body size), second only to the froghopper.
VIEW ON BLACK (if you dare)