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A fact from Hematophagy appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 11 July 2005. The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that the bite of the hematophagous assassin bug, which causes the rare South American parasitic infection known as Chagas disease, could have been the reason behind Charles Darwin's illness?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2005/July.

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Assassin bugs

Assassin bug describes the feeding of assassin bugs as something different from hematophagy, and describes the bites of assassin bugs on humans in a way that sounds more like defense than feeding. Which is correct? Or is it both? Jon the Geek July 9, 2005 16:21 (UTC)

There is a kind of assassin bug (see Triatominae which bites mammalian hosts for the sake of feeding on blood. Rsabbatini 9 July 2005.

note on maggots

http://www.sclero.org/medical/symptoms/skin/digital-ulcers.html quotes The Seattle Times 08/04/04 on "maggot debridement therapy".

I'm not logged in at the moment, and don't have time for a proper edit right now. I may edit the main article tonight.

75% leeches

I tagged the bit about leeches because on the leeches page it says, "All leech species are carnivorous. Some are predatory, feeding on a variety of invertebrates such as worms, snails, insect larvae, crustaceans, while a very few are haemophagic."

The Man in Question 18:10, 13 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Convoluted

Certain sections of the article are difficult to understand, I think they would benefit from a rewrite or reorganisation.

80.192.82.22 (talk) 21:58, 17 July 2010 (UTC)Cal[reply]

Blood sucking from vases?

Under the "Mechanism and evolution" section, it reads: 'blood is acquired either by sucking action directly from the vases'. Blood from vases? Huh? Maybe it's meant to be veins?

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+== Blood sucking from vases? ==
+Under the "Mechanism and evolution" section, it reads: 'blood is acquired either by sucking action directly from the vases'. Blood from vases? Huh? Maybe it's meant to be veins?