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Topic: Grayish Mouse Opossum


  
 Urban Entomology [Ebeling Chap. 9 part 3] Pests Attacking Mand and His Pets   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Opossums in such areas are heavily infested with fleas, and are suspected of being responsible for some of the sporadic cases of typhus in man (Adams et al., 1970).
When infestations are very heavy, the accumulations of grayish larvae and white eggs give the sleeping quarters of cats and dogs a "salt-and-pepper" appearance that easily identifies the infestation.
The mouse flea can be distinguished from other common fleas having both genal and pronotal combs by its genal comb having only 4 spines (figure 302).
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