A flea is a parasitic insect.

Flea may also refer to:

People

  • Flea (musician), the stage name of Michael Balzary, bassist of Red Hot Chili Peppers
  • Darryl Virostko, professional big wave surfer nicknamed "Flea" from Santa Cruz, California, USA
  • Flea, the former alias of Australian hip-hop artist and Lgeez member Alex Jones

Literature and fiction

  • The Flea (poem), a poem by John Donne
  • The Flea (character), a character from the animated TV series ¡Mucha Lucha!
  • The Flea (fairy tale), a fairy tale by Giambattista Basile
  • Flea (Chrono Trigger), a video game character
  • "Fleas" (poem), a common alias for "Lines on the Antiquity of Microbes"
  • "Fleas (The Good Wife)", a first season episode of The Good Wife
  • "Fleas", a song by NOFX from Punk in Drublic

Other uses

  • Cat flea, Ctenocephalides felis, whose primary host are domestic cats
  • Snow flea, small jumping insects in the order Collembola and a term sometimes also used for wingless scorpionflies in the family Boreidae
  • Water flea, any of several small aquatic crustacea
  • FLEA (psychedelic), a psychedelic phenethylamine
  • Fuel fleas, microscopic particles of radioactive nuclear fuel
  • Bugaboo (The Flea), a 1983 video game by Paco Portalo and Paco Suarez
  • Stir bar, sometimes known as a flea, a bar magnet used as part of a magnetic stirrer to stir solutions in a laboratory

See also

  • Flee (disambiguation)
  • Fleadh (disambiguation), an archaic spelling of the Irish word fleá, meaning a festive occasion or banquet