understanding the flea

The flea is a wingless insect that lives off the blood of warm blood animals. The life cycle of the flea can last as little as 3 weeks to as long as 6 months. In sunny Southern California the flea thrives all year long.  Once an adult female flea takes a blood meal she is capable of laying up to 50 eggs at a time and as many as 2000 in her lifetime.