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In natural environments, female cat fleas, Ctenocephalides felis (Bouché), produce blood feces and eggs after the first blood-feeding. The daily fecal production of a virgin male cat flea was 0.0503 mg, significantly less than that of a virgin female 0.8546 mg. Approximately 74% of eggs laid by mate...

Mass production of cat fleas, Ctenocephalides felis (Bouché), in laboratory is required when a large number of individuals must be supplied consecutively for insecticide tests or other biological research. To keep a flea colony in high quality and stable condition, the larval diet must contain suffi...