{"id":767,"date":"2014-11-18T20:32:49","date_gmt":"2014-11-18T20:32:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pesttech.co.za\/?page_id=767"},"modified":"2015-01-20T08:17:49","modified_gmt":"2015-01-20T08:17:49","slug":"fleas","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.pesttech.co.za\/?page_id=767","title":{"rendered":"Fleas"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"vc_row wpb_row vc_row-fluid\">\n\t<div class=\"vc_col-sm-12 wpb_column vc_column_container\">\n\t\t<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\n\t<div class=\"wpb_single_image wpb_content_element vc_align_center\">\n\t\t<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"720\" height=\"523\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pesttech.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/flea-5.jpg\" class=\" vc_box_border_grey attachment-full\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.pesttech.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/flea-5.jpg 720w, https:\/\/www.pesttech.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/flea-5-300x218.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/>\n\t\t<\/div> \n\t<\/div> \n\t<div class=\"wpb_text_column wpb_content_element \">\n\t\t<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n\t\t\t<p>Flea is the common name for insects of the order Siphonaptera which are wingless insects whose mouthparts are adapted for piercing skin and sucking blood.<\/p>\n<p>(some authorities use the name Aphaniptera because it is older, but names above family rank need not follow the ICZN rules of priority, so most taxonomists use the more familiar name).<\/p>\n<p>Fleas are external parasites, living by hematophagy off the blood of mammals and birds.<br \/>\nGenetic and morphological evidence indicates that they are descendants of the Scorpionfly family Boreidae, which are also flightless; accordingly it is possible that they will eventually be reclassified as a suborder within the Mecoptera.<\/p>\n<p>In the past, however, it was most commonly supposed that fleas had evolved from the flies (Diptera), based on similarities of the larvae.<\/p>\n<p>In any case, all these groups seem to represent a clade of closely related insect lineages, for which the names Mecopteroidea and Antliophora have been proposed.<\/p>\n\n\t\t<\/div> \n\t<\/div> \n\t\t<\/div> \n\t<\/div> \n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Flea is the common name for insects of the order Siphonaptera which are wingless insects whose mouthparts are adapted for piercing skin and sucking blood. (some authorities use the name Aphaniptera because it is older, but names above family rank need not follow the ICZN rules of priority, so most taxonomists use the more familiar [...]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"template-fullwidth.php","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-767","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pesttech.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/767","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pesttech.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pesttech.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pesttech.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pesttech.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=767"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.pesttech.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/767\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":841,"href":"https:\/\/www.pesttech.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/767\/revisions\/841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pesttech.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}