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==Life Cycle==
 
==Life Cycle==
Before the female lays eggs, it must first have several large blood feeds on the host.  It then lays its eggs on the host, which shortly hatch into larvae.  The larvae undergo three transformations, before entering the pupae stages.  They then finally become fully reproductive females.
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Before the female lays eggs, it must first have several large blood feeds on the host.  It then lays its eggs on the host, which shortly hatch into larvae.  The larvae undergo three transformations, before entering the pupae stages, and finally become fully reproductive adults.
    
They spend most of their life cycle on the host.
 
They spend most of their life cycle on the host.
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