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2. Fact check: Are sand fleas biting you on the Myrtle ... - AOL

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   Mole crabs are sometimes called sand fleas. Some anglers call the inch-long mole crab a sand flea. It is prized by anglers as bait. The mole crab’s relative, the sand flea, is less than a ...

3. Biting flies are out in the Myrtle Beach area. Why now & how ...

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   Lying out in the sand in the Myrtle Beach area, you might also get bites from no-see-ums, also called biting midges and sand fleas, and horse flies. Like humans, these pests are likely enjoying ...

4. Talitridae - Wikipedia

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   Terrestrial species are often referred to as landhoppers and beach dwellers are called sandhoppers or sand fleas. The name sand flea is misleading, though, because these talitrid amphipods are not siphonapterans (true fleas ), do not bite people, and are not limited to sandy beaches.

5. Emerita (crustacean) - Wikipedia

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   E. analoga digging in the sand. Emerita is adept at burrowing, and is capable of burying itself completely in 1.5 seconds. [6] Unlike mud shrimp, Emerita burrows tail-first into the sand, using the pereiopods to scrape the sand from underneath its body. [12] During this action, the carapace is pressed into the sand as anchorage for the digging ...

6. Tunga penetrans - Wikipedia

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   Tunga penetrans is a species of flea also known as the jigger, jigger flea, chigoe, chigo, chigoe flea, chigo flea, nigua, sand flea, or burrowing flea. It is a parasitic insect found in most tropical and sub-tropical climates .

7. The plague, fevers, tularemia: The diseases fleas can carry ...

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   There are more than 2,000 species of tiny (0.04 to 0.15 inches), wingless, blood-sucking fleas that live on the body of the host they infest. ... spread by sand fleas. Uncomplicated cases manifest ...