The echidna flea (Bradiopsylla echidnae) is thought to be the world's largest flea and it parasitises the short-beaked echidna. It reaches 4 millimetres in length.
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“This flea is you and I, and this
Our mariage bed, and mariage temple is;
Though parents grudge, and you, w’are met,
And cloystered in these living walls of Jet.”
—John Donne (1572–1631)