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Fleas are wingless insects with mouthparts that are capable of piercing skin and sucking blood. (theydiffer.com)
Fleas are not only a nuisance to their hosts by causing an itching sensation, but can also cause diseases by acting as a vector (carrying and transmitting infectious pathogen into another living organism). (theydiffer.com)
Fleas are insects, while ticks are arachnids, but that's just the start. (theydiffer.com)
Both being a parasite and a vector, fleas can transmit bartonellosis and tapeworm while ticks can transmit potentially deadly diseases including Lyme disease and Rocky Mountain spotted fever. (theydiffer.com)

Some of these risks come from diseases that many of us are already familiar with: Lyme disease, for example, which is carried by ticks, or West Nile virus, proliferated by mosquitoes - both vector-borne diseases spread by blood-sucking arachnids and insects. (grist.org)
Stings by members of the order Hymenoptera and order Scorpionida are discussed in other articles, as are bites of venomous arachnids in the class Arachnida (spiders) and bites of the order Acarina (mites and ticks). (medscape.com)
Ticks are considered small arachnids that can measure from ¼ to 1/8 of an inch long. (theydiffer.com)

A bite is usually from mouth parts and occurs when an insect is agitated to defend itself or when an insect seeks to feed. (medscape.com)

With global temperatures rising, well-known vector-borne illnesses are becoming more common , and other, lesser-known diseases are spreading into new areas. (grist.org)

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Insects are arthropods of the class Insecta. (medscape.com)
Arthropods, other than insects and arachnids, which transmit infective organisms from one host to another or from an inanimate reservoir to an animate host. (nih.gov)

Stings by members of the order Hymenoptera and order Scorpionida are discussed in other articles, as are bites of venomous arachnids in the class Arachnida (spiders) and bites of the order Acarina (mites and ticks). (medscape.com)

Insects represent more than half of all known living organisms and potentially represent more than 90% of the differing life forms on Earth. (medscape.com)

This article is limited to bites by insects and not arachnids. (medscape.com)
however, many of the principles that guide diagnosis and treatment of insect bites also apply to bites and stings of these other organisms. (medscape.com)

One of the most feared pest infestations, bed bugs are small, flat insects that tend to congregate in mattress folds, furniture, carpet, or wall folds. (naturalstatepestcontrol.com)
The mattress bugs are reddish brown, oval and flat insect equivalent to an apple seed. (difference.wiki)

Any of various small bloodsucking arachnids of the order Ixodida that are parasitic on terrestrial vertebrates. (difference.wiki)

Most stinging insects are of the order Hymenoptera, which is made up of multiple families, including 3 that are clinically important: Apidae (bees), Vespidae (wasps), and Formicidae (ants). (medscape.com)