First glance at the words "Blood Sucker", many will start to think of vampires or mosquitoes. BUT, I am not going to talk about either of them. The two extreme creatures that I am going to talk about, not only do they have disgusting appearances but are also blood-thirsty creatures.
They are the Fleas, and the Ticks.
Some facts about Fleas
- Flea larva may live on the carpets, or any fabric surfaces.
- The flea larva actually feeds on the poop of an adult flea besides dead skin debris of animals. Eventually, it will spin itself into a cocoon, and can stay inside for more than a year waiting for a host to arrive.
- Flea can jump 150 times its body length, which is about 240m high for a human being of 1.6m! In order to attach itself onto its host.
- The flea has a very poor eyesight, it can only sense its hosts through movement and concentration of carbon dioxide.
- It can drink blood of up to 15 times its body weight. In conversion, it is approximately 750kg of liquid consumed by a person with 50kg body weight!
- The poops it produces are rich in nutrients for larvae to grow.
- One of the best way to get rid of fleas, is the use of vacuum cleaner.
Some facts about Ticks
- A tick is an eight-legged bug, a relative to spiders.
- Very similar to fleas, a tick tracks its host by following the trail of carbon dioxide released by the hosts.
- A tick locates the blood vessels closest to the skin surface of its host, at which it will bite and start leeching for blood.
- The horrifying fact is that, a tick can drink up to a maximum of 600 times of its body weight of blood! (which is 30,000kg of fluid for a 50kg-person)
A female tick with eggs. Source: Click Here
- Once latched on a host, a tick may be 'glued' onto the host and suck blood for up to a few days. Until its body weight increases about several hundreds times its original weight!
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