Flea Quiz: questions and answers
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1. How long can an adult flea go without a snack of a host’s blood?
About two months
2. How long can flea pupae remain in their cocoons waiting for a host to show up?
About one year
3. What are ectoparasites?
Parasites that live outside a body
4. What is an example of a plant that is a parasite?
Mistletoe
5. Are there any parasites that live in symbiosis with their hosts?
Both of the above statements are true
6. What is the common name given to hard plates on the exterior of many insects for the sake of protection?
Sclerites
7. Besides the sclerites, what is distinctive of a flea’s body?
Fleas have tiny rear pointing hairs covering their bodies, which makes them difficult to dislodge
8. A flea uses its back legs for jumping. How many joints are in each of the flea’s back legs?
Several
9. If a human could jump in the same proportion as a flea, how far could a human jump?
250 feet vertically or 450 feet horizontally
10. In a population of fleas, in a home, for example, how many of the fleas are eggs?
In a population of fleas, about 50 percent are eggs at any give time