The ability to jump allows the flea to jump onto the hosts body quickly and attach itself. Once attached the flea will engorge itself with blood, and disengage.
miligrams
For body size compared to jump height, the flea wins easily.
About 0.5 milligrams (mg).
it is believed that a flea can jump up to 200 times its own body height!six feet
A flea can jump over a 100 times its own height.
A flea.
red body four legs
a tic?
Yes, but when it latches onto the skin, it cannot let go till it dies. When that happens, it falls off.
The black death was carried by the oriental rat flea which then was past onto the rats then humans
Rats were the primary carriers of the oriental rat flea, which would then hop onto humans and infect them.