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Shark Tank is an American reality television series that premiered on August 9, 2009, on ABC.

The show is a franchise of the international format Dragons' Den, which originated in Japan in 2001.

Shark Tank shows aspiring entrepreneur-contestants as they make business presentations to a panel of "shark" investors, who then choose whether or not to invest.

A pest is "a plant or animal detrimental to humans or human concerns (as agriculture or livestock production)"; alternative meanings include organisms that cause nuisance and epidemic disease associated with high mortality (specifically: plague).

In its broadest sense, a pest is a competitor of humanity.

Fleas are small flightless insects that form the order Siphonaptera.

As external parasites of mammals and birds, they live by consuming the blood of their hosts.

Adults are up to about long and usually brown.

Bodies flattened sideways enable them to move through their host's fur or feathers; strong claws prevent them from being dislodged.

They lack wings, and have mouthparts adapted for piercing skin and sucking blood and hind legs adapted for jumping.

The latter enable them to leap a distance of some 50 times their body length, a feat second only to jumps made by froghoppers.

Larvae are worm-like with no limbs; they have chewing mouthparts and feed on organic debris.

Ticks are small arachnids, part of the order Parasitiformes.

Along with mites, they constitute the subclass Acari.

Ticks are ectoparasites (external parasites), living by feeding on the blood of mammals, birds, and sometimes reptiles and amphibians.

Ticks had evolved by the Cretaceous period, the most common form of fossilisation being immersed in amber.

Ticks are widely distributed around the world, especially in warm, humid climates.

Mosquitoes are small, midge-like flies that constitute the family Culicidae.

Females of most species are ectoparasites, whose tube-like mouthparts (called a proboscis) pierce the hosts' skin to consume blood.

The word "mosquito" (formed by mosca and diminutive -ito) is Spanish for "little fly".

Thousands of species feed on the blood of various kinds of hosts, mainly vertebrates, including mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and even some kinds of fish.

Some mosquitoes also attack invertebrates, mainly other arthropods.

Though the loss of blood is seldom of any importance to the victim, the saliva of the mosquito often causes an irritating rash that is a serious nuisance.

Much more serious though, are the roles of many species of mosquitoes as vectors of diseases.

In passing from host to host, some transmit extremely harmful infections such as malaria, yellow fever, Chikungunya, West Nile virus, dengue fever, filariasis, Zika virus and other arboviruses, rendering it the deadliest animal family in the world.