Other Fleas

     There are three different kinds of fleas: the mobile fleas, the sedentary flea and the stick tight fleas.

     A type of Asian sedentary flea can produced 1,000 flea eggs. Sedentary fleas spend most of their time in the nest.

     Mobile fleas spend most of its their life in nests or on hosts. The sedentary flea stays on its host wherever it goes.

     The stick tight flea is the most interesting type. The female attaches itself to the host by digging itself into the host's skin. The Chigoe flea, AKA the jigger, lives in South America, Africa, and Asia. Their hosts are pigs, dogs, and sometimes even humans. The female digs itself into the host and starts sucking blood. When the flea is still under the host's skin, it mates and its abdomen starts swelling to the size of a pea. The unlucky host's skin stretches with it. The male flea then hops off the host. Then the female lays the eggs which fall onto the ground. The female, still the size of a pea, and still under the host's skin dies. If bitten on the toe area, a person might loose their toe. Not only that, but since it is still inside the skin, it can cause a fatal blood poisoning.