10 blood sucking animals in the animal kingdom

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This list of animals that suck blood includes bats, mosquitoes, leeches, and others. However, one of them will shock you. Feeding on blood sounds unnatural, but these animals can’t imagine having anything but blood on their diet!. • A variety of invertebrates, including insects, arachnids and worms, consume blood. Insects such as assassin bugs (Reduviidae), mosquitoes (Culicidae) and bedbugs (Cimex lectularius) live by feeding on the blood of various host species. Male mosquitoes do not feed on blood, but females require it to deposit eggs, otherwise they will die without reproducing. Though they superficially resemble insects, ticks are arachnids—relatives of spiders and scorpions—that subsist on the blood of other animals. New World leeches primarily live an aquatic lifestyle, while those of the Old World often live on land. Hematophagous invertebrates are vectors for the spread of a variety of diseases; mosquitoes spread West Nile virus and malaria, ticks spread Rocky Mountain spotted fever and Lyme disease, and assassin bugs transmit deadly Chagas disease. • • #bloodsuckinganimals #bloodsuckers • #animals #animaldiet #animalsthatsuckblood

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