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Hematophagy (sometimes
spelled haematophagy or hematophagia) is the
practice by
certain animals of
feeding on
blood (from the Gr****
words αἷμα
haima "blood"...
- (Pediculus hum**** hum****, also
known as
Pediculus hum**** corporis) is a
hematophagic ectoparasite louse that
infests humans. It is one of
three lice which...
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feral cats,
spiders and snakes,
micropredators such as
vampire bats and
hematophagic arthropods (e.g. mosquitoes, fleas, lice,
bedbugs and ticks,
whose "bites"...
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intracellular pathogens (disease-causers).
Their vectors are
mostly hematophagic arthropods such as fleas, lice, ticks, and mosquitoes. For example, the...
- most
orders of
mammals and all
orders of birds. Lice
differ from
other hematophagic ectoparasites such as
fleas in
spending their entire lifecycle on a host...
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buettikoferi is
derived from his surname. The
Kinabalu leech is not
hematophagic and
feeds only on
worms such as the
Kinabalu giant earthworm, Pheretima...
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annual meeting where he
claimed that the
pterosaur Jeholopterus was
hematophagic. By the mid 2000s
conflicts between Peters and
academic paleontologists...
- The life
cycle of the mite is
another important method of diagnosis.
Hematophagic mites generally feed at night, but may also feed
during the day if the...