EVERYDAY SCIENCE

Detailed explanation-1: -Cimex is a sanguivorous, which is a blood sucking animal. Some other examples of sanguivorous animals are leech and female mosquito.

Detailed explanation-2: -Sanguivorous means feeding on blood. Leech is a blood-sucking ectoparasite. Hence mode of nutrition is parasitic and sanguivorous. It is a segmented worm which belongs to Annelida.

Detailed explanation-3: -Leeches are worms that live in water or on land and feed by sucking blood from fish, frogs, lizards, birds or, if they get the chance, larger animals like humans. They suck blood because it is a very good food source for them. Some leeches only need to feed once a year.

Detailed explanation-4: -Because of their important salivary components, blood-sucking (sanguivorous) leeches, such as Hirudo medicinalis and related species, have engendered great interest from pharmaceutical companies searching for anticoagulants to prevent blood clotting during microsurgeries.

Detailed explanation-5: -Sanguivores are animals that nourish on or consume other animals’ blood. Sanguivores include leeches, female mosquitoes, and vampire bats. Some sanguivorous creatures, called obligate sanguivores, nourish on other food products other than blood. Vampire bats, for instance, are white-winged vampire bats.