hematophagous

The worms are hematophagous, blood feeding, even the female despite being fully enclosed.

Vandelliines are hematophagous, feeding on the blood of larger fish.

Based on the contents of the amber specimen including three hematophagous insects, it is likely to have been formed in a tree cavity.

Hematophagous organisms have been used by physicians for beneficial purposes (hirudotherapy).

A few species, such as the fish-eating bat, feed from animals other than insects, with the vampire bats being hematophagous.

Bed bugs are obligatory hematophagous (bloodsucking) insects.

These species are hematophagous (consume blood) parasites, like all other members of the subfamily Vandelliinae.

Sycoracinae, another subfamily, is also of hematophagous habits, being parasitic on frogs.

Several other mechanisms have been developed to protect a large variety of hematophagous organisms against the toxic effects of free heme.

Some individuals can start the hematophagous feeding in the river before migrating to the sea, where sea lampreys prey on a wide variety of fish.

Adults can be predatory, hematophagous, saprophagous, or feed on a number of types of plant and animal exudates.

Most leeches are hematophagous, as they are predominantly blood suckers that feed on blood from vertebrate and invertebrate animals.

So fossil ticks and hematophagous insects are generally assumed to be ectoparasites, even when their remains are found in the absence of a host.

These hematophagous animals have mouth parts and chemical agents for penetrating vascular structures in the skin of hosts, mostly of mammals, birds, and fish.

These hematophagous organisms such as Malaria parasites (Plasmodium spp.)

The Glossinidae are generally placed within the superfamily Hippoboscoidea, which contains other hematophagous families.

They are hematophagous and typically live in forested and muddy habitats like swamps, streams, reservoirs, and in rotting vegetation.

Anticoagulant medicines have been developed on the basis of substances found in the saliva of several hematophagous species such as leeches (hirudin).

About 14,000 species of arthropods are hematophagous, even including some genera that were not previously thought to be, such as moths of the genus Calyptra.

The phlebotomic action opens a channel for contamination of the host species with bacteria, viruses and blood-borne parasites contained in the hematophagous organism.

Entomologists have used Parafilm as a membrane to feed hematophagous insects such as mosquitoes and bedbugs reared in the lab.

After 1 year of hematophagous feeding, lampreys return to the river to spawn and die, one year and a half after the completion of metamorphosis.

Universally, hematophagous arthropod saliva contains at least one anticlotting, one antiplatelet, and one vasodilatory substance.

Triatoma melanica is a hematophagous insect, a Chagas disease vector, included in the Triatominae group.

Obligatory hematophagous animals do not have any other type of food besides blood; one such species is Rhodnius prolixus (an assassin bug from South America).