Flea Facts.....

   1.  In 30 days, 10 females can produce 4,000 new fleas.

  2.  Fleas can jump 300,000 times without stopping. They can jump 50 times their body length vertically and horizontally, and have a take-off acceleration of 50 times that the space shuttle after lift-off.

  3.  Fleas can remain frozen for a year and then revive.

  4.  There are more then 1,000 species of fleas in the world, with 238 species in North America.

  5.  Fleas, ranging in size from hardly visible to 1/3 inch long, have been the transmitters of disease such as the Bubonic plague and typhus.

  6.  Fleas can spread tapeworm, a parasite found in the intestines of dogs and cats.

  7.  Flea fossils date back to the Lower Cretaceous period, meaning that fleas have been around for about 100 million years. At that time, their neighbor might have been a Tyrannosaurus Rex.

Fun facts about ticks...

1.  One female tick can lay as many as 40,000 eggs at one time.

2. Ticks do not fall from trees, as is often mentioned. They are usually brushed off grasses, bushes and at the edges of woods up to knee height.

3.  It takes a tick as little as 7 seconds to crawl from the gound, up to the top of a humans head.

4. Ticks may carry bacteria, viruses, protozoa, and toxins that are dangerous to your pet such as Lymes disease.

5. Ticks are not insects. Ticks have eight legs as an adult and two body segments, whereas insects have six legs as an adult and three body segments. Ticks are arachnids, as are chiggers, spiders and mites.

Mosquito Facts...

1.  An adult female mosquito consumes about 5-millionths of a liter in a single blood meal.

 2.  A mosquito can smell the carbon dioxide you exhale from about 60 to 75 feet away.

 3.  Mosquitoes can fly about 1 to 1.5 miles per hour.

 4.  Male mosquitoes find female mosquitoes by listening to the sound of their wings beating. The males can actually identify the correct species by the pitch of the female's wings.

 5.  Mosquitoes can transmit heartworm disease and West Nile disease to your pet.