{"id":564,"date":"2016-08-12T12:48:18","date_gmt":"2016-08-12T19:48:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southernpestcontrol.com\/blog\/?p=564"},"modified":"2025-10-03T13:40:03","modified_gmt":"2025-10-03T13:40:03","slug":"fun-fact-friday-pet-vampires","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southernpestcontrol.com\/?p=564","title":{"rendered":"Fun Fact Friday &#8211; Pet Vampires"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Fun Fact Friday &#8211; Pet Vampires<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Fleas rely on blood for food.<\/li>\n<li>A female flea can lay roughly 2,000 eggs.<\/li>\n<li>Female fleas are typically larger than the males.<\/li>\n<li>Fleas have four life stages: egg, larva, pupa, and adult.<\/li>\n<li>A female flea can consume up to 15 times her body weight daily.<\/li>\n<li>Cat fleas can jump to heights of up to 8 inches and distances of 19 inches.<\/li>\n<li>There are more than 2,000 species and subspecies of fleas. In North America, the cat flea is responsible for the majority of dog and cat infestations.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fun Fact Friday &#8211; Pet Vampires Fleas rely on blood for food. A female flea can lay roughly 2,000 eggs. Female fleas are typically larger than the males. Fleas have four life stages: egg, larva, pupa, and adult. A female flea can consume up to 15 times her body weight daily. Cat fleas can jump [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[101,59,30],"class_list":["post-564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pest-control","tag-flea","tag-fleas","tag-pest-control-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southernpestcontrol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southernpestcontrol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southernpestcontrol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southernpestcontrol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southernpestcontrol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=564"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/southernpestcontrol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12744,"href":"https:\/\/southernpestcontrol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564\/revisions\/12744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southernpestcontrol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southernpestcontrol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southernpestcontrol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}