Looking at the habitat, the lice mainly live on hairy parts of the body while the fleas live in warm parts of the body such as armpits and behind the ears.
Considering the physical appearance, the lice can grow up to 4. Also, the lice are oval-shaped while the fleas have a flat-shaped body. Furthermore, the lice can be dark gray in color while the fleas are dark reddish brown in color. In addition, the eggs of lice are tan or coffee colored while the eggs of fleas are white color. Nutritionally, some lice are symbiotic scavengers while all fleas are blood parasites. Furthermore, the lice do not move long distances while the fleas move quickly.
Moreover, the lice cannot jump while the fleas have long hind legs, which facilitate jumping. Besides, the life cycle of lice has three stages; egg, nymph, and adult while the life cycle of fleas has four stages; egg, larva, pupa, and adult.
Also, the lice show high levels of host specificity while the fleas show a comparatively low level of host specificity. The lice are ectoparasites of humans and mammals and they have an oval-shaped body.
Fleas are also a type of ectoparasites of mammals and birds and have long hind legs, which help them to jump. Both can serve as vectors that transmit diseases. The main difference between lice and fleas is the anatomy and behavior. Rozendaal, Jan A. The larvae feed on organic matter such as the feces of the host, small dead insects and undigested blood expelled by adult fleas.
The adults go out in the night and feed of the blood of humans or animals. Also, the fleas leave a series of bites when they feed. The bites generally result in the formation of a slightly raised, swollen itching spot with a single puncture point at the center, which is similar to a mosquito bite.
The bites often appear in clusters or lines of two bites, and can remain itchy and inflamed for up to several weeks. The bites can cause irritation, serious discomfort and loss of blood. After the flea finishes feeding, it rests in cracks, crevices, carpets and bedding.
Hence, it can be hard to find and to pin point a flea infestation. Also, the eggs can hatch after weeks of being laid and start the infestation anew. There is no effective way to prevent fleas. It is however easier to manage and get rid of a flea infestation in the earlier stages, rather than later.
There are two basic ways to address the problem: try to prevent any stage of the pest from entering the home and keep immature stages from maturing into adults. For prevention in pets, using a flea comb on the cat or dog and wash the bedding weekly has proved to be effective. For humans, an effective repellent applied to skin and clothing, prevents fleas from attacking for a few hours. Other effective measures include dusting clothing with insecticide powder, or by using insecticide-impregnated clothing, keeping houses well swept and floors washed, treatment of floors with detergents, insecticides or a solution of naphthalene in benzene, and spraying or dusting insecticides into cracks and crevices, corners of rooms and areas where fleas and their larvae are likely to occur.
Fleas can be quite dangerous, as they can act as a vector for disease. Fleas transmit not only a variety of viral, bacterial and rickettsial diseases to humans and other animals, but also protozoans and helminths. Nits, on the other hand, are the eggs produced by the hair lice.
Head lice are tiny, wingless, parasitic insects that live and feed on blood from your scalp. There are other types of lice, including body lice, which affects the body and pubic lice, which affects the pubic area.
The head lice are the most common form of infestation that most humans face. Head lice are a very common problem, affecting millions of people each year.
They commonly affect preschool and elementary school-aged children, who unknowingly infect each other and others close to them, such as family members.
However, getting a head lice infestation is not a sign of bad personal hygiene or an unclean living environment. It is an itchy infestation commonly spread through close personal contact and by sharing personal belongings, such as caps, hats and scarves, brushes and combs, hair decorations, such as barrettes, and headphones. Lice usually live for about one month and females may lay numerous nits eggs in their lifetime. After laying nits, female lice glue them to the pet's hair shafts.
Fleas, on the other hand, live about two to three months on the pet and can lay thousands of eggs in their lifetime. Unlike lice, fleas lay eggs that fall right off the pet into carpets, bedding and backyard areas. From there, these eggs will hatch and develop into adults to re-infest the dog or infest other animals. Lice spread to other pets through close contact, while fleas spread to pets from a contaminated environment.
In other words, an infected pet can transfer lice directly to another pet, but a flea-infested pet will very rarely directly transfer fleas to another pet. Rather, a pet has to walk or lay around an area that is contaminated with fleas and then the fleas will jump on the pet. Any pet, even those that are well-cared for, can get fleas; their age or breed doesn't matter, either. Lice, however, tend to affect young, old or neglected pets living in poor sanitary conditions.
Knowing basic facts can help you treat and prevent pest problems that affect your pet. Don't forget that prevention is key: Do all you can to keep fleas and lice at bay before they become a problem for you and your pet.
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