2006-07-24 16:45:14 · 7 answers · asked by Jessica B 4 in Pets ➔ Other - Pets
Life Span: 30-90 Days (Average).
A flea might live a year and a half under ideal conditions. These include the right temperature, food supply, and humidity. Generally speaking, though, an adult flea only lives for 2 or 3 months. Without a host for food, a flea's life might be as short as a few days. But with ample food supply, the adult flea will often live up to 100 days.
http://www.loc.gov/rr/scitech/mysteries/flea.html
Over her life span, a female flea may lay several
hundred eggs. Immature fleas called larvae hatch within two weeks. Larvae live in cracks and crevices and feed on
organic material, including tapeworm eggs.
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2006-07-24 16:51:12 · answer #1 · answered by ted_armentrout 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Flea eggs can go dormant if they do not have the correct environment. An experiment on Discovery Channel proved that fleas will hatch after 2 years!!! I found that particularly creepy.
Don't know about life span, sorry
2006-07-24 17:00:02 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
they can live on an animal for quite some time... if you have fleas in your home the best way to get them out is to get frontline plus for your animals treat them every one for three months and when you treat the animals than there is a huge white colored can of flea spray at fleet farm for 9.98 (appx.) in the farm sprays.. i used foggers and everything else for houses and nothing works.. i used this spray for in barns and pooooffff all fleas were GONE its been about 8 months since my last spraying of the house and treatment of the animals and haven't seen a flea.. if you want to know the exact name just send me an email at littlechicky_82@yahoo.com
2006-07-24 17:26:43 · answer #3 · answered by littlechicky_82 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Fleas are tough to get rid of. If you have them in your house you must treat everything, the pets, house, and yard. Do it at the same time and get it done before it gets really bad.
2006-07-24 17:00:37 · answer #4 · answered by cats2006 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
10 days after laying do they hatch, don't know about lifespan though
2006-07-24 16:48:53 · answer #5 · answered by heather m 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
theres an invention called GOOGLE or YAHOO SEARCH
and you have flea egss as pets???
2006-07-24 17:00:27 · answer #6 · answered by AvesPro 5 · 0⤊ 2⤋
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flea
This should answer all of your questions
2006-07-24 16:51:49 · answer #7 · answered by kay 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋