This is just part of
different flea populations evolving to avoid our control.
Not exact matches
Unlike many
populations of animals that undergo genetic changes over numerous generations and improve their camouflage against the environment, sand
fleas from the
different beaches begin life as a planktonic larval stage and so are likely to come from the same gene pool.
So researchers put infected
fleas on
different feeding schedules and observed the impact on the
populations of parasites inside them.
Only one insecticide, the organochlorine dialdrin, had 100 % mortality across all
flea populations, while the next four effective insecticides had very
different susceptibility profiles across the
different populations.