Blood-sucking butterflies

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Juglans, 11.06.2008 15:27

I've heard that there are scoops in Southeast Asia whose males drink the blood of elephants, rhinos, buffaloes, and tapirs. They pierce the integument with a sharp proboscis. Females feed on the juice of plant fruits. Has anyone seen them?" Did you collect it? Are there any other butterflies known to feed on tissues and organic matter of animal origin (I mean imago)?

This post was edited by Juglans - 11.06.2008 16: 51

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04.11.2015 5:19, ИНО

0.3 mm? Maybe it's not a butterfly, but a glitch? I have never heard that in addition to shovels, some butterflies were mixed up in human bites (or, more correctly, proboscis pricks). And something tells me that your small butterflies, which are certainly not 0.3 mm long, but 0.3 cm long, are an ordinary dress or fur moth (or, alternatively, a barn moth), and someone else bites you. For example, the same "linen lice" that you "get rid of in the same way". Undersupplied, apparently. A mosquito can fly and bite quite silently, and it squeaks (or rather, it - only females drink blood) specifically at its own request, although it is not yet fully established why (one of the hypotheses is intraspecific communication).

04.11.2015 18:49, ИНО

Crypta thalicri is a hefty dustpan, not a 3 - millimeter moth, and is not found in apartments (unless it accidentally flies into the light through an open window). There are really many different wonders found in nature. Here, for example, in the next topic, one girl took acne for parasitic worms. And my own grandmother, in all seriousness, told me that when she was young, some magical toad with claws chased her in the garden and almost broke through the door of the toilet in which she hid from it. But do hairdressers have such a miracle of nature as a digital camera?

Now I Googled this calypta, I thought, maybe I'll find something interesting, about cases of attacks on people, including in my region. But no, the fears of people who previously unsubscribed in this topic came true in the worst case scenario - one of the first links that Google finds leads to here.

04.11.2015 20:51, АЙНА Живолунова

Dear ENO, I want to say that I am an observant and economic woman.
And the fact that you're referring to a psychiatrist is not very polite of you.
Just the same butterfly lives in the house of one of my friends, who
brought it to me, as I understand it, with last year's potatoes from the basement.
By the way, she said that fleas have wings, because she also flies.
And I have it flew out of the box where the second batch of potatoes was lying.
And this butterfly is not a Calypta thalicri moth, but another, but in the pictures
"blood-sucking butterflies" there is a similar one.
If I did, I'm not afraid of them at all, but I love the big ones very much.
They often fly into my apartment on the 6th floor (in common parlance-
peacock's eye". I don't know why insects like my apartment so much, but
the hornet flew in 2 times and bumblebees, and wasps every spring on the balcony, I
feed them fresh jam in the fall.
As I understand it, our discussion is useless and from my point of view
meaningless. All the best to you!I wish you to be less interested in the tabloid
press, and listen to the opinion of the people.
R. S. And by the way, my name is AINA Georgievna.

04.11.2015 22:21, Andrey Bezborodkin

Dear ENO, I want to say that I am an observant and economic woman.
And the fact that you're referring to a psychiatrist is not very polite of you.
Just the same butterfly lives in the house of one of my friends, who
brought it to me, as I understand it, with last year's potatoes from the basement.
By the way, she said that fleas have wings, because she also flies.
And I have it flew out of the box where the second batch of potatoes was lying.
And this butterfly is not a Calypta thalicri moth, but another, but in the pictures
"blood-sucking butterflies" there is a similar one.
If I did, I'm not afraid of them at all, but I love the big ones very much.
They often fly into my apartment on the 6th floor (in common parlance-
peacock's eye". I don't know why insects like my apartment so much, but
the hornet flew in 2 times and bumblebees, and wasps every spring on the balcony, I
feed them fresh jam in the fall.
As I understand it, our discussion is useless and from my point of view
meaningless. All the best to you!I wish you to be less interested in the tabloid
press, and listen to the opinion of the people.
R. S. And by the way, my name is AINA Georgievna.

Aina Georgievna, what are you offended about? The entomologist wrote you the absolute truth. And he asked me to take a picture of the object biting you. There are no and cannot be in our latitudes lepidoptera (whatever you want to call them-moths , moths, etc.) that pierce the skin of people, except for the scoops of the genus Calyptra. C. thalictri is not a small butterfly (compared to a moth), it is rare in summer, and cases of human "bites" by males of this species are extremely rare. You are most likely bitten by one of the diptera (mosquitoes, midges)-there are many types of them and they look different. But not butterflies (including moths). This is simply not possible.

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05.11.2015 8:01, АЙНА Живолунова

Dear AVA, Just yesterday, this "Winged flea" flew out from
under the box where potatoes are stored and flew behind the kitchen cabinet.
They don't like the light and hide somewhere all the time, all summer I
was bitten by non-buzzing mosquitoes, you only feel the bite and kill
the remains of an insect with your hand and under your fingers.( On the face.)You turn
on the fumigator and they stop biting. Although everyone in our city said
that there are not enough mosquitoes this year. People slept with their windows open.
You entomologists all this is funny ( crazy nonsense) and
only the Nobel Prizes on your mind. And I do not know how to deal with this
infection. Diclofos is missing in the city, so we'll have
to take it from St. Petersburg.
Well, if I find this infection, most likely I'll send the dead
one to some entomological laboratory, if I don't forget...
And a friend said that the flea flies, because this infection
also bit her. And that the butterfly would drink human blood, but in
our latitudes, this is something of a kind of fiction....But THE FACT IS!

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