Why do Insects Bite? A review of blood sucking behaviour
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Why do insects bite? A review of blood sucking behaviour.
Introduction There is considerable variation in the extent of the association between a blood sucking insect and its host. Blood sucking Diptera such as mosquitoes are temporary ectoparasites, only visiting the host for long enough to obtain a blood meal. Temporary ectoparasites such as tsetse flies, tabanids and mosquitoes tend to take relatively large blood meals, thus limiting the danger fro...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of the Royal Army Medical Corps
سال: 1995
ISSN: 0035-8665,2052-0468
DOI: 10.1136/jramc-141-03-05