OK Mosquitoes get eaten by bats....just about everything else has a place in the circle of life......Fleas & Ticks do nothing but make poor creatures itch, look gross & spread tapeworms.
What good do they do the planet???
2006-08-27 12:26:22 · 8 answers · asked by Catcanscratch 5 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Biology
Does anyone else hate them???
2006-08-27 12:41:20 · update #1
In the food chain there are plants, herbivores, predetors, and decomposers. Among them are the opportunistic parasites.
Not everything has a purpose or needs to have a purpose in nature. The purpose is simply to exist and procreate. Nature and evolution creates creatures that can fill a niche in the environment--and parasitism is one of them.
And even fleas have parasites on them. (Ever seen a ESM pic of a flea?)
2006-08-27 12:47:27 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
As far as I can tell, if you are in the anti-flea business, they are beneficial. But that's about it.
Fleas are a parasite to some animals and a blessing to others. They help spread other life forms, very often diseases. To moody Mother Nature this may seem beneficial, but to us it certainty is an annoyance. I'll bet if they infested her arm pits, they wouldn't be around much longer!
Theoretically, the diseases they spread may have killed off some less hardy species over millions of years allowing another more resistant species to flourish having less predators to deal with over time. Any benefit they may have today is most likely to be seen in their long-term influence on the evolution of other species they effect rather than any immediate benefit we can see now.
Perhaps if evil aliens ever invaded Earth, the fleas just might turn out to be the salvation of mankind. In which case I could learn to live with them. I would even make little beds for them to sleep in. But until then, get offa my dog, you little #@!%*## .....
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I agree. Fleas suck!
Great fleas have little fleas upon their backs to bite 'em,
And little fleas have lesser fleas, and so ad infinitum.
And the great fleas themselves, in turn, have greater fleas to go on;
While these again have greater still, and greater still, and so on.
From Augustus De Morgan's - A Budget of Paradoxes
2006-08-27 12:57:02 · answer #2 · answered by Jay T 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2016-09-30 01:41:40 · answer #3 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
sometimes ticks and fleas are the vector of some diseases,and I think theres no good thing they do in this planet.
2006-08-27 12:43:45 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
About the only thing I can think of is that they must be part of some food chain somewhere and they give exterminators and pesticide suppliers and vets and sometimes doctors work.
2006-08-27 12:33:39 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Evolution does not require that they do good, only that they survive and reproduce.
Some Christians might insist that they do good.
One could say they flee and tick!
2006-08-27 12:34:17 · answer #6 · answered by thylawyer 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
They suck blood for food, but I know of no type of worm they spread. Lyme disease and Bubonic plague yes and typhus.
2006-08-27 12:32:17 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No I do not hate them, they do exactly what they were designed to do ..... http://ca.answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AuGtrjtfT1_L8D_ii68BasTAFQx.?qid=20060827003915AACqsRi
2006-08-27 18:10:17 · answer #8 · answered by Kelly + Eternal Universal Energy 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋