Zoology: Invertebrates

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kissing bug

A Dictionary of Ecology | 2004 | | Copyright

kissing bug A name given to several American genera of Reduviidae which feed on the blood of mammals and birds. Some species live in and around human dwellings, where they can transmit the blood parasite Trypanosoma cruzi, responsible for the debilitating Chagas's disease.

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kissing bug

A Dictionary of Zoology | 1999 | | Copyright

kissing bug Name given to several American genera of Reduviidae that feed on the blood of mammals and birds. Some species live in and around human dwellings, where they can transmit the blood parasite Trypanosoma cruzi, responsible for the debilitating Chagas's disease.

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Free newspaper and magazine articles

	Kissing Bugs, Ticks, and Fleas: Disease Vectors in the Southwestern U.S.(Report) Magazine article from: Infectious Disease Alert; 4/1/2010
	Kissing Bug has this zoos problem licked... Thick-skinned: The Kissing Bug... Newspaper article from: Daily Mail (London); 12/6/2007
	BUG OF THE MONTH: The kissing bug.(Brief Article) Magazine article from: Geographical; 11/1/1999