They are of complete metamorphosis. Your cycle is:
- Eggs of 300 to 400.
- Larva.
- Pupa.
- Adult.
- It takes 30 to 60 days.
The eggs are deposited, and develop the larvae in the birds in the spring and early summer. The Echidnophaga gallinacea it is located in the skin of the birds.
After mating, the females are con la cabeza en la piel de la cresta y las barbillas de aves, y alrededor del ano del animal, en particular donde la piel está desnuda.
Here they form clusters where they lay their eggs. The female flea only pokes her head out of the host's body.
The eggs are deposited in these ulcerations of the skin, as well as in the nest of the host, and in the areas underlying assets such as cracks or slits in the chicken coop.
Flea eggs are about 0.5 mm in size, oval-shaped, and pearl white in color, and are laid in the sores caused by blood-soaked feathers.
Larvae Echidnophaga gallinaceaat the hatch, they fall to the ground to continue his development. The skin around the nodules of the ulcer and the host's young people can die in the case of heavy infestations of fleas.
Flea feces play an important role in the larvae's nutrition; they are those tiny black specks that, when the animal is infested, can be seen on the surface and, when crushed against a white background, leave a bloodstain.
The larvae develop in these places to eat organic particles.
Blood residues from adult insects—that is, partially digested feces—are important for the development of many larval species. The larvae spin a cocoon coated with particles on the outside to camouflage themselves.
The larvae in the cocoon, they turn into pupae and turn into an adult flea. The flea developed can stay a long time in the cocoon. Once you have completed your development, the adult flea emerges not immediately in its envelope pupal, as it may take a few days, months, and even a year.
This explains the presence of fleas on sites that have been unoccupied for periods quite a long time, for example in winter, before there is an appropriate stimulus to exit out.
All fleas feed on the blood of birds or mammals. Fleas can only reproduce when there are birds in the nest or roost that they can feed on.
The larvae of Ceratophyllus gallinae and Echidnophaga gallinacea they are thinner, worm-shaped, and no more than five millimeters long.
The larvae are yellowish-white in color, with a boneless body; the head capsule is brown.
They have rows of long hairs scattered across their bodies. They then pupate inside a cocoon that is spun from the materials in the nest.
The cocoon is camouflaged with debris and are difficult to detect, to become a flea completed during the summer or in the fall, but remains in the cocoon until the next spring. When it comes to the heat of the spring, they come out.
In contrast with the adult fleas, larvae, fleas require specific habitats, mostly associated with the habits of the nesting of our chicken coops, rather than the type of blood.
