Hematophagy: Blood Suckers
This list includes any animals that feed on blood as their main source of sustenance.
Christine Young created this list 7 years ago
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Deer Tick (Questing) - Ixodes scapularis -
Mosquito (Female) - Ochlerotatus (Aedes) sticticus -
Woodland Mosquito - Aedes excrucians -
Inland Floodwater Mosquito - Aedes vexans -
Horse fly in tribe Diachlorini, Los Cedros Reserve, Ecuador -
White-bellied mosquito, Armigeres subalbatus "Let sucking my blood before hitting you off" -
Blue leech/slug, Bellavista, Ecuador -
Deer Tick (Male) - Ixodes scapularis -
Mosquito - Asian tiger mosquito (Aedes albopictus) - "sucking my blood" -
Aedes albopictus -
Castor Bean Tick on floor, Heeswijk-Dinther, Netherlands -
Castor Bean Tick questing, Heeswijk-Dinther, Netherlands -
Blacklegged Tick Nymph - Ixodes scapularis -
Deer Tick (Ixodes scapularis) -
Lone Star Tick - Amblyomma americanum -
Freshwater Leech - Phylum Annelida, Class Clitellata, Subclass Hirudinea -
Big Fat Tick! -
Brown Dog Tick (Nymph) - Rhipicephalus sanguineus -
Eastern Newt (Adult) with Leech - Notophthalmus viridescens -
Blacklegged Tick (Female) - Ixodes scapularis -
Bed Bug - Cimex lectularius -
Human Flea (Female) - Pulex irritans -
Plague Flea - Xenopsylla cheopis -
Common House Mosquito (Male and Female L-R) - Culex pipiens