There are several crops that can prevent flea beetles from taking up residence in your garden, including catnip, basil, thyme ...

Use floating row covers over seedlings and susceptible crops such as eggplants, which can be decimated by flea beetles. Keep ...

Fleas typically attack dogs and cats, but humans can also get bites. Flea bites may occur on your ankles, legs, waist, and other body parts. They can cause itchy, red bumps, irritation, and ...

Eggs: Within about 24 hours of feeding, a female flea begins producing eggs—up to 50 a day and about 2,000 in her lifetime, which is two to three months. These eggs are laid on the animal, but ...

There are remedies that can rid veggies of common insects if applied at the first signs of activity, Don Kinzler writes.

Out of over 300 species of fleas in the United States, Ctenocephalides felis, or the cat flea, ... which can be transmitted to cats while a flea is feeding on them.

Flea species in the U.S. tend to feed on animals, but sometimes people are bitten when they share space or come into contact with a flea-infested animal, according to the CDC. ...

DURING investigations on the possibility of inter-vector transmission of the rat trypanosome, Trypanosoma lewisi Kent, by the rat flea Nosopsyllus fasciatus Bosc, new observations have been made ...