Life-History of a Flea.

Wairarapa Standard, Volume XIX, Issue 1841, 7 June 1886, Page 3

Life-History of a Flea.

What nuisances naturalists are ! They peke their noses into everything, as if they were seeing that Providence was doing His work properly ! They are also nuisances from our point of view, for they look upjmost disgusting things and they write paperfi about them. Here is a man who has just given the world the results of two years’ observation on the “Life-history of a Flea.” He actually kept tame fleas, he tells us—most of us do, without boasting of it. He has tracked every stage, and sketched it, in the development of this domesticated creature, and he seems proud of the job ! Another writes and observer steps in to supply a supposed lapse. The first writer made no reference to the food provided by the female flea for the sustenance of her progeny until they reached tha pupa stage ; and he demonstrates what it is, and appeals to every lady’s experience. They have noticed (he says) when making a bed that the flea's eggs are often surrounded by black objects. These are masses of coagulated blood, intended for the flea larvae to dine upon- thanks to their mothers’ foresight and care. They are “preserved meats,” in short—as if we were not all " preserved meats’’for fleas I Not long ago I was travelling the golf rink with a brother golfer and evangelical clergyman. It was a hot day. and the flies bit, and the parson flapped them. I’m not a cruel man,” he said, " but I always kill two things—flies and fleas ?” I suggested, “What a splendid opportunity Noah had of being a benefactor to the human race when he bad only one pair of each with him in the ark !’’

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