Use floating row covers over seedlings and susceptible crops such as eggplants, which can be decimated by flea beetles. Keep ...

Now this hungry flea needs a warm body to call home. Its jump is super fast, 100 times faster than the blink of an eye. But it takes more than muscle to move that fast.

That jumping reaction looks very much like a flea jump. This early brood of beetles are black in color and while not as small as a flea, they’re still pretty small at less than 1/16th of an inch ...

When fleas invade your yard, it’s only a matter of time until they make their way into your house, especially if you have animals. These tiny and tenacious insects have a way of jumping on larger ...

Biomechanics of jumping in the flea. J. Exp. Biol. 214, 836-847. This article is posted on this site to give advance access to other authorised media who may wish to report on this story.

Henry Bennet-Clark, who has died aged 90, was a zoologist of invertebrates and dedicated teacher who solved two great puzzles in insect biology: how fleas jump and how cicadas belt out songs so ...

Fleas jump more quickly and with more force than would be possible using muscle. This mystery was solved in 1967, when researcher Henry Bennet-Clark discovered that the fleas, ...

Fleas can jump and cicadas can sing because of an elastic protein called resilin. Now, for the first time, scientists have made it in the lab. It's extremely elastic, and scientists say it could ...