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to its host, releasing an enzyme that stops the host

from feeling anything as it sucks a banquet of
This wormlike segmented sucker connects on animal carcasses and open wounds.
swelling up to five times its size, then falling off
to digest its feast. Not a fussy eater, it also feeds
blood. A leech may feed for up to 20 minutes,
be very afraid. These creepy creatures

These wingless insects, which can leap 200 times their own body length onto their victims, have thin bodies to maneuver through fur or hair. Fleas pierce your skin with hollow mouthparts and suck up a meal of blood, leaving behind a very itchy bite. thirst for the blood of other animals, including you. Piercing through skin and veins with their monstrous mouthparts, they suck or lap up the blood that sustains them, until they must feed Bedbug can grow

Fleas again. Watch out, or you might be What living nightmares await you in your cozy bed? Lurking within the sheets or hiding out in tiny crevices, bedbugs launch their attack at night. With beaklike mouthparts, they suck up their fill of blood and

Be afraid… their next victim!

Beware of the female of this species. Sensing the chemicals

blood while you swell with a nasty itch. and heat that you give off, she lands on your skin and sticks in a sharp, thin proboscis. Her saliva stops your blood from clotting as she feeds, and her abdomen swells with your Waiting in tall grasses for a host to pass by, ticks stab their victims with pincerlike mandibles and tooth-covered feeding tubes. The teeth curve back on themselves to anchor the creatures into the host. After getting stuck

Mosquitoes BLOOD SUCKERS! Ticks

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