American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN) - The Clinical Nurse Leader; American Association of Colleges of Nursing's White Paper on the Education and the Role of the Clinical Nurse Leader; American Association of Managed Care Nurses; American Board of Managed Care Nursing; AONE Institute for Leadership Research & Education
1 Female fleas cannot lay eggs until after their first blood meal and begin to lay eggs within 36-48 hours after that meal. 2  The female flea can lay 2,000 eggs in her lifetime.  The female flea consumes 15 times her own body weight in blood daily.
Female flea can lay up to 50 eggs per day. The four stages of a flea are Egg, Larvae, Pupae and Adult. Frontline kills the Egg, Larvae and Adult life stage. NOTHING kills the Pupae stage. During this stage the new adult flea waits in a protective cocoon for the next available blood meal.