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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"...
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Certain plants have
shown effectiveness as
topical repellents for
haematophagous insects, such as the use of
lemon eucalyptus in PMD, but incomplete...
- "citronella candle") as an
insect repellent,
particularly to
deter haematophagous insects such as mosquitoes. http://www.fao.org/AG/AGP/AGPC/doc/GBASE/DATA/PF000206...
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arthropods ****ociated with
sloths comprise two
distinct feeding guilds – the
haematophagous guild,
represented by
biting flies, mites, and ticks, and the coprophagous...
- 2018.
Agata Pielowska; Elżbieta Sontag;
Ryszard Szadziewski (2018). "
Haematophagous arthropods in
Baltic Amber".
Annales Zoologici. 68 (2): 237–249. doi:10...
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Dermanyssus gallinae (also
known as the red mite) is a
haematophagous ectoparasite of poultry. It has been
implicated as a
vector of
several major pathogenic...
- by
comparing it with
known examples.
Humans are
constantly fed on by
haematophagous (blood feeding) insects. The
ingested blood can be
recovered and used...
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serious problem than
their bites is the fact that
several of
these haematophagous Central and
South American species transmit the
potentially fatal trypanosomal...
- brucellosis-like
disease in cattle.
Parasites need a host body and the
haematophagous insect triatomine (descriptions "********in bug", "cone-nose bug", and...
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mites transmitting a huge
number of pathogens. Many such
vectors are
haematophagous,
which feed on
blood at some or all
stages of
their lives. When the...
