“Other typical chalk grassland flowers include horseshoe vetch, squinancywort and the nationally rare field fleawort, together with wild candytuft and five species of orchid.”

“The heathland is full of colourful heather and among the rocky patches you'll find the rare spotted-rock rose with spatulate fleawort hanging from the cliff tops, found nowhere else in the world.”

“But that expense was a fleabite when compared with the cost of the structural alterations that were now fairly in hand.”

“A year, in the timescale of international development, is barely a fleabite.”

“What seemed a year or so ago to be a fleabite when O'Brien began to stalk the company is rapidly turning into a savage attack.”

“Water for animals of such a small size, including larval fish, brine shrimp, and water fleas, is essentially like syrup.”

“If that isn't enough there are other creepy-crawly threats that jump around trying to kill you, like spiders and fleas.”

“But look closely and you can find sand shrimp and beach fleas hopping through the debris.”