Fleas can be an important nuisance in the summer and fall outdoors.
They can be a real problem indoors all year long. Fleas are parasites in the insect Order - Siphonaptera . Siphonaptera means a tube with out wings or a wingless straw referring to the piercing, sucking mouthparts used to suck blood from their 'host' animal. There are close to two thousand different flea species with more than 250 of them in North America. They have been around for millions of years.