Features

 

 

• 2-3mm long

• Body flattened from side-to-side

• Well developed jumping legs

• Red-brown colour

• Female may lay several hundred eggs in groups 4 to 8

• Adults bite and feed on blood of cats, dogs, birds and humans

• Lives on animals 50% of the time and the rest of the time found on bedding, carpets, edges, cracks and crevices

• Females may lay several hundred eggs in groups of 4 to 8