| Some scientists have suggested that the vampire bat developed its blood-sucking practice while it was an insect-eater, as most bats are. |
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| In November 1964 he found a lampern, a relative of the blood-sucking lamprey. |
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| The pesticide kills mosquitoes, the blood-sucking pests that spread malaria. |
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| Typhus is caused by rickettsia, bacteria-like microorganisms transmitted through blood-sucking insects such as fleas, lice, and ticks. |
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| The family of march flies are closely related to the blood-sucking mosquitoes and sand flies. |
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| Fears that an infestation of giant, blood-sucking bedbugs is plaguing south Dublin have been raised after a second outbreak was confirmed. |
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| Thousands of bee swarms in the central Eastern Cape have been decimated by a deadly blood-sucking Asian mite which destroys the male drone bees and damages female worker bees. |
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| All these measures were taken to halt the blood-sucking tendencies of the recently deceased. |
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| The sacrifice is that all of the blood-sucking creatures that get killed during the bitterly icy winters in other parts of the country flourish in ours. |
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| The setting sun cast elongated shadows over the flat landscape and welcomed blood-sucking insects to an evening of feasting around the small watering hole. |
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| Complaints about stroppy, belligerent, blood-sucking GP receptionists top the list of rising grievances about local practices. |
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| Although generally despised, the blood-sucking human body louse, Pediculus humanus, has gained newfound popularity among scientists for a surprising genetic feature. |
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