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Fleas, bedbugs and lice are insects, whereas ticks and mites belong to another group of arthropods, the Acarina. Unlike adult insects they have only two main sections to their body, and the adults have four pairs of legs (as opposed to three pairs in insects).
Tax reductions mean that more disposable income is available to people. But the increase in consumption depends on the marginal propensity to consume (MPC). If the MPC is too low, consumers will not consume the additional income made available to them through tax cuts.
I would say that it's a plain, and more specifically the European Plain (from France to Russia). Central Europe is really quite flat with only occasional mountain ranges.