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Flea
Flea, wingless bloodsucking parasitic insect, 1665. The human flea (Pulex irritans) can transmit plague. From "Micrographia" by Robert Hooke (1635-1703). "Micrographia" was published in 1665 and contains prints of some of the specimens Hooke viewed under the compound microscope that he designed. Oxford Science Archive. --- Image by © Heritage Images/Corbis



























