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Sentence Examples The scud are closely related to beach fleas or beach hoppers, which live on just about all sandy ocean shores. The puppy has a gut infection, mange, a severe skin problem, worms, fleas and ear mites. The Stockholm picture and one of the drawings show a woman searching for fleas. Rickettsial diseases are vector-borne illnesses usually carried by ticks, lice, fleas, or mites, and are widely distributed throughout the world. Commonly termed beach fleas, they are actually air-breathing marine crustaceans with modified gills and related to shrimps. Imagine my horror when I had invited the parents of a Japanese student staying with me and we were all bitten by fleas! More than a nuisance, fleas and ticks can transmit a host of pathogens and skin diseases to humans and their furry counterparts. Only a couple of animals are resident on the beach itself, ghost crabs and beach fleas, and they both burrow into the sand to survive. Also, vacuuming and using diatomaceous earth are natural ways of helping to control fleas in the environment. Coptic medical documents indicate that galbanum was used to rid the home and body of fleas and other vermin. When the cross-bred dogs were examined they were found to be thin, infested with fleas and suffering from hair loss. Inspecting the marsupial in question, I noticed it was crawling with fleas. The disease is passed onto humans through fleas which jump from the rat when it dies. As he walked around the lounge his boots stuck to the floor and he became aware that he was being bitten by fleas. In 2002, two Gardai sued the state after being bitten by fleas in Garda stations. Plague mostly affected rodents, but fleas could transmit the disease to people too. When rats die from the plague, the fleas that lived on them must seek out new sources of blood. In the end, I obeyed and fell into a comfortable sleep, ignoring the fleas that were jumping around me. Fleas spread the bacteria between cats, although there is no evidence that fleas can transmit the disease to humans. Not only does it repel mosquitoes, but it repels ticks, chiggers, fleas, and flies, too. Show More Sentences A man is inseparable from his congenital vanities and stupidities, as a dog is inseparable from its fleas. Medicines targeting fleas, ticks, heartworm, and intestinal parasites prevent both the pests and the diseases they cause. We counted mature fleas, flea larvae, and ticks under a dissecting microscope. It has more jumping prowess than fleas, out hops the springiest grasshoppers, and clears the high bar more quickly than bush crickets. But look closely and you can find sand shrimp and beach fleas hopping through the debris. There were three blankets to cover us, all covered with fleas, nits and insects. We have been told they are snow fleas but nobody knows how to get rid of them. Once the ancestors of fleas split from snow fleas 160 million years ago, they continued this trend. The scientists isolated the gene for green opsins from 11 species of scorpionflies, snow fleas, and true fleas. This spring-loaded stunt is responsible for the jumping antics we noticed in those first snow fleas we found. A new antifreeze protein discovered in tiny snow fleas by Canadian researchers may allow organs to be stored longer before being transplanted. Some people become worried by the vast numbers of snow fleas and their sudden appearance on the ground. Water for animals of such a small size, including larval fish, brine shrimp, and water fleas, is essentially like syrup. We studied allozyme variation in metapopulations of two species of water fleas in the skerry archipelago of southern Finland. They're so plagued by lice, fleas, dander and mange that their coats are spotted with huge bald patches and pocked with weeping sores. Like other white dogs, the Westie often has problems with skin allergies, usually caused by fleas. It's also a very good idea to have the cat wormed, vaccinated and treated for fleas and ear mites. Although we typically find snow fleas in March, you may see them anytime during the winter. A total of 60 white-footed mice yielded 16 species of mites, two species of ticks, two species of fleas, and one species of louse. Lice are wingless and they cannot jump, unlike fleas, but instead they spread through physical contact. Show More Sentences Mating swarms of golden snow fleas are seen on and around melting snow in June on the summit of Mount Revelstoke. A boric acid product can be sprinkled on carpets to kill fleas over several weeks. And rid your home of fleas in carpets by sprinkling and brushing a salt and boric acid compound into carpets. Vacuum the boric acid up 24 hours later and it is said to prevent fleas for 1 year or until your carpets are shampooed. Because fleas multiply rapidly, treating fleas involves removing them form the animal's environment as well as its skin and hair. These are the herbs that were used in medieval times to deter moths and fleas from clothing and people. The plague likely spread to Europe on the backs of shipboard black rats that carried plague-infested fleas. The animals harbor the lice and fleas that spawn serious diseases such as typhus, trichinosis, and infectious jaundice. Deet protects troops on the ground from mosquitoes, deer ticks, biting flies, chiggers, fleas and other insects. Typhus is caused by rickettsia, bacteria-like microorganisms transmitted through blood-sucking insects such as fleas, lice, and ticks. If that isn't enough there are other creepy-crawly threats that jump around trying to kill you, like spiders and fleas. I'm glad my two preciouses didn't get a stepfather that cared so much for fleas, as he would have been brutal to them. Beds were made from straw, which of course is a home for insects of all kinds, particularly fleas, lice, and tics. This camp was lousy with lice and fleas, and it wasn't long before I was as lousy as the rest of the boys there. Also round about this time fleas and body lice were rampant and so most people shaved their body hair. The tiny little spots are sand fleas trying to dig their way into his skin. While most species of Daphnia, including D. pulex, are herbivorous or detritivorous, a few are carnivorous and prey on other water fleas. Maybe a target audience of desert dwelling sand fleas would warm to this crazy mix of faux comedy with karate chops. Soldiers slept in tents and had no running water or dining facility, used burn-out latrines, and endured sand fleas, crickets, and extreme heat. We use brewer's yeast to feed fleas when we're raising them for experiments. Show More Sentences True, the Lakes' shores lacked the sand fleas that infested ocean beaches and scared off those who couldn't tell them apart from lice. The reason I had seen the sand fleas always hopping whenever I approached them was because I was approaching them. Other times it can be like sitting in a hornets' nest with sand fleas up your nose. Although I have not subjected myself to all of these, the label says that Repel disgusts chiggers, fleas, mosquitoes, ticks, and sand fleas. Their latest CD, Beach Blanket Bedlam, packs a punch with high-energy, oddball odes to sand fleas and doomed hoodlums. A tiny multicoloured parrot flew from shoulder to shoulder to peer at us inquisitively, while a small tame monkey searched for fleas in our hair. Periodically inspecting your dog for fleas, ticks, grass awns and barbs is also a good idea. Some bathers are unnecessarily apprehensive about being bitten by beach fleas, which feed only on organic debris. If you see any mice, rodents or other potential carriers of those dangerous fleas, kill them immediately. As the rat scurries along the rafters and through the thatched roofs of 14th Century England the infected fleas would drop down off their backs onto the humans below. Like a crazy, drunk uncle shooting an epileptic dog because he has fleas, the current GOP shuns him for all the wrong reasons. Sofia tells them about the horrid and rancid conditions in which she lives, with fleas, vermin, roaches, and about her job cleaning the dirty sheets. The walls are rubble and sand, infested with fleas and insects. He told me that I was a sissy for hating the sand fleas on the beach. Despite balmy temperatures, you'll need to pack pants, long-sleeved shirts, and, yes, even socks, to fend off the hordes of biting sand fleas and midges on the Tuichi River. I rescued you from the pound when you were all manky with fleas. With most diseases spread by rodents, the mouse or rat or vole is only an intermediary for fleas and lice and the like. The hyperiids are little crustaceans which are again entirely planktonic but are related to beach fleas and those laterally compressed wriggly things you find under stones. Their primary food sources are beach fleas, lice, flies and ants. During the day, beach fleas hide in burrows or moist places among debris. Show More Sentences We wished to avoid the constant and real threat of bedbugs, fleas, and other insect pests which we had brought home in our bags, topclothing, and soiled linens. And in a city with large slums and poor sanitation, rats can thrive easily, fleas and all, to spread the plague. The Black Death is said to have originated in Central Asia, to have been contracted from fur-bearing animals and to have been spread to Europe by ship rats and their fleas. Their name aside, snow fleas are not fleas and they never bite. Programs to rid cities of mosquitoes that spread West Nile virus or fleas, ticks, and lice that are vectors of disease may be worthwhile, she said. Herbal flea collars containing essential oils such as pennyroyal, eucalyptus and citronella can also prevent fleas and ticks from landing on your pet. The contractors had already sprayed for cockies, fleas, flies and mice but the cockies were guaranteed to re-emerge once the effect of the watered-down spray lost its potency. Many things can lead to these hot spots including food and airborne allergens, ticks, fleas and other insect bites, and contact allergens like grass. He said that fleas can jump over two hundred times their own height. It put poison in his blood that killed fleas after one bite. The negative association between the two ectoparasites suggests that hen fleas could impose selection pressures on the evolution of Protocalliphora life history traits. Fleas infest the animal, and these fleas move freely over to human hosts. Ticks are on the up-tick, but DuraSpot Dog uses Nylar to kill and repel fleas and ticks for up to four weeks. Tungiasis, a parasitic skin disease that occurs in tropical countries, is caused by sand fleas of the genus Tunga. External parasites include chewing lice of the genus Saemundssonia, feather lice and fleas such as Ceratophyllus borealis. In some summers, wildcats are infested with fleas of the Ceratophyllus genus, which they likely contract from brown rats. Carp feed on tubifex, water fleas, mosquito larvae and other natural organisms that are usually present in the ponds. Deleuze and Guattari are right in miracling fleas into the bestiary, but it is already rich enough to do without them. The roaches, the flies, the mosquitoes, silverfish, fleas and wasps, bed bugs, ants, they arrived on time and the meeting was called to order. Because sand fleas are a problem, flea collars and flea wipes are also needed. Show More Sentences The reason for the speedy spread of the disease was the increase of rats infected by fleas carrying the disease. Louis, and since Hurricane Katrina my family has been practically eaten alive by mosquitoes and infested with sand fleas. I mean yes, the sand fleas tear you up, but at least you know you're actually making a difference. In reality, fleas are merely troublesome, while ticks, lungworm, lice and sarcoptic and demodectic mange can be much more of a threat. Use live or frozen shrimp, sand fleas and fiddler crabs fished on a small hook. The laboratory tests will examine acute lethality in rainbow trout and freshwater fleas in mining effluents. Spotted fever group rickettsiae in ticks and fleas from the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The remaining pages are divided among dscussions of fleas, lice, bedbugs, triatomine bugs, cockroaches, mites, and argasid and ixodid ticks. Relationships of the white-footed mouse, Peromyscus leucopus, and its associated fleas in southwestern Wisconsin. While we protect the rights of the convicted murderer, the whales, frogs and sand fleas, we abandon the helpless human being. As a person digests the water fleas, the worm larvae get released into the person's stomach tissues. For example, Cortland Line Company's Flea Flicker line is a big help in lakes where spiny water fleas are a problem. The bug is a type of ostracod, which belongs to the same group of animals as water fleas and shrimps. Tiny water fleas ingest the larvae first, and they are easily filtered from drinking water. A team of scientists from Edinburgh University found that well-fed water fleas were more contagious than those given less to eat. These bacteria are carried by fleas, which can be transferred to humans through contact with rats. Rootless and adrift in its wetland habitat, the humped bladderwort preys on water fleas and other small invertebrates. Massaged into the pet's coat, it abrades the waxy shell of fleas, ticks and mites, causing them to die from dehydration. These observations suggest that in Lushoto District human fleas may play a role in plague epidemiology. Born into a world of communism, Gennady Favel took to capitalism like fleas to a dog. Show More Sentences Plague fleas, infected clothing, and infected supplies encased in bombs were dropped on various targets. For example, in 1940, the Imperial Japanese Army Air Service bombed Ningbo with fleas carrying the bubonic plague. When the second population dies, the fleas move on to other hosts, including people, thus creating a human epidemic. The disease repeatedly wiped out the rodent carriers so that the fleas died out until a new outbreak from Central Asia repeated the process. The population consists of crabs, spiders, scorpions, sand fleas, beetles, large roaches, and many species of birds. Other ectoparasites include biting lice, sucking lice and the fleas Pulex irritans and Ctenocephalides canis. From there, it was most likely carried by Oriental rat fleas living on the black rats that were regular passengers on merchant ships. Wolves are often infested with a variety of arthropod exoparasites, including fleas, ticks, lice, and mites. The grooming seems to disadvantage fleas rather than merely having a social function. This was in contrast to fleas away from their host which ran upwards and jumped when disturbed. Each monthly dose kills fleas, flea eggs, flea larvae, ticks and chewing lice. A recent report found a single train compartment contained 1,000 cockroaches, 200 bed bugs, 200 fleas, 500 dust mites and 100 carpet beetles. Treat your house with sprays called Skoosh or Acclaim or Frontline Combo which kills fleas and stops their eggs hatching. Animals concernedRodentmouse, mice, brown rats, voles, black rats, muskrats, Pest cockroaches, fleas, ants, silverfish, bed bugs, armyworms. We were deloused and checked for fleas on admission to Mount Saint Canice. Bubonic plague is mainly spread by infected fleas from small animals. The last remaining group, the siphonapterans or fleas, appeared in the Cenozoic, coincident with the radiation of the mammals that they parasitise. Natural flea products utilize herbs and natural borate or diatomaceous earth powders along with a healthy diet and vitamin and garlic supplements to combat fleas. Sand fleas can be problematic to find and corral, but blue crab knuckles, fresh cut clams and fresh shrimp will work nearly as well, and sometimes better. The suslik fleas as reservoirs of plague virus during winter. Show More Sentences Topics to be covered include rickettsiosis, bartonellosis, leishmaniasis, and other diseases transmitted by ectoparasites, such as fleas, ticks and sandflies. A study of the parasites of the American white pelican found 75 different species, including tapeworms, flukes, flies, fleas, ticks and nematodes. The conditions that lead to their abundance are even more mysterious than for sand flies, but chigoe fleas are clearly more numerous in some households than others. Examples from Classical Literature An exceedingly remarkable organ of sense, which is found in all fleas, is called the pygidium. On epidemiological grounds the insects most open to suspicion are the lice, bed-bugs and fleas. Had you been bitten with bandog fleas, as I have been, and haunted with the night Mare. They were swarms of lice and fleas, and we did a shikar for them most of the night. Its fumes, being heavier than air, penetrate the burrows and promptly poison or asphyxiate all living animals and fleas. Her night's experience at Ottumwa was repeated here, except that the army of invaders were fleas. For Seventhly he fleas himself, that he may not be interrupted upon the beat. The maxillary palpi of fleas are always composed of four segments. Instantly he visualized all the objections to dogs, from fleas to rabies. When an infected rodent becomes sick and dies, its fleas can carry the infection to other warm-blooded animals or humans. It was brought here by fleas living on the black rats that infested merchant ships. Between 1346 and 1665, Europe was devastated by different waves of a plague caused by fleas living on black rats. It is thought to have started in China or central Asia and spread by fleas on black rats that were aboard merchant ships. The mats and futon of old-fashioned hotels are full of fleas. Then there are the old ladies who worship a fat poodle, scant of breath and full of fleas. There have been 70 cases reported countywide since 1993, with most occurring in the summer and transmitted to humans by fleas from rats or opossums. He was armed with a musketoon, a pike and an ax, which latter he used as a wolf uses its teeth, with equal case picking fleas out of its fur or crunching thick bones. Researchers found that when a population of parasite-infected water fleas was well-fed, some of them became highly contagious, compared with when food was limited. Mountain mint, pennyroyals and Hedeoma pulegioides, and corn mint, all contain high levels of pulegone, a compound that repels fleas, ticks, and mosquitoes. Find more words! 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