what is i little black  insect that burrows its head in to humans skin to get blood?
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its called a tick and they are a nightmare to get out!
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Don't jump to conclusions. The simplest answer is usually correct. \n\nMy assumption is that you were probably bitten by the deadly black-tarantula. To the bee, your foot, swollen to gigantic proportions and bright red with infection, resembled a flower. It tried to gather nectar, but ended up with a nose-full of spider-venom and died.
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The bedbug uses two hollow tubes to pierce the skin.  These are used to produce anticoagulants and anesthetics, and to withdraw blood.  The bedbug itself though does not get underneath the skin.
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I learned when a mosquito bites you, she's sticking her needle-like mouthpart into your skin and injecting saliva rich in anticoagulating enzymes so the blood will flow smoothly. Some people are sensitive to those enzymes so their skin itches and when you scratch it, it's irritating the skin even more which will lead to redness and minor swelling around the area of the bite. \n\nI could be wrong since my knowledge on the subject is more than 10 years old. ^_^;
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Bed bugs were once a common public health pest worldwide, which declined in incidence through the mid 20th century. Recently however, bed bugs have undergone a dramatic resurgence and worldwide there are reports of increasing numbers of infestations.Bed bugs are wingless insects, roughly oval in shape, 4-5mm long when fully grown, and are fast runners. They are rust brown in colour and change to a deeper red brown following a blood meal. Bed bugs are dorsoventrally flattened and being thin means that they can hide in narrow cracks and crevices, making detection often very difficult.Most blood feeding occurs at night, and they generally seek shelter during the day and become inactive while digesting the blood meal. However, bed bugs are opportunistic and will bite in the day especially if starved for some time. They can survive for long periods without feeding. While their preferred host is human, they will feed on wide variety of other warm-blooded animals including rodents, rabbits, bats, and even birds. \n\nBeing a cryptic species, bed bugs shelter in a variety of dark locations, mostly close to where people sleep. These include under mattresses, floorboards, paintings and carpets, behind skirting, in various cracks and crevices of walls, within bed frames and other furniture, and behind loose wallpaper. Bed bugs tend to stay in close contact with each other and heavy infestations are accompanied by a distinctive sweet sickly smell. Blood spotting on mattresses and nearby furnishings is often a tell tale sign of an infestation.\n\nBed bugs are one of the great travellers of the world and are readily transported via luggage, clothing, bedding and furniture. As such, they have a worldwide distribution. \nIf bed bugs are suspected then a licensed pest controller should be consulted. A careful inspection must be undertaken and all possible hiding places within infested and adjoining rooms examined. Once all likely sources have been identified, then an approved insecticide, which has some residual activity, should be applied to all harbourages. Non-chemical approaches to control involve the use of hot air and/or wrapping up infested materials in black plastic and placing the articles in the sun, thereby killing the bed bugs with the heat generated. However this should only be used for small items, if at all. Clothes can be washed in hot water and dried on the hot cycle of the clothes drier. Delicate materials can be placed into the freezer. Generally, pesticides will need to be applied in conjunction with any non-chemical means of control. Good housekeeping practices and a reduction in possible harbourages such as cracks and crevices will discourage repeat infestations. As bed bugs are cryptic in their habits, complete control is often difficult to achieve with the first treatment. This is especially so with heavy infestations and thus a post control treatment evaluation is always advisable. For more information on control visit our Bed Bug web site & click on the Bed Bug Code of Practice (or click here).
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A black widow. However the black widow has the red spot on it's under-side. Not on it's back. Be careful
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Scabies are insects that burrow under the skin of humans, and YES, they do itch! Often you will see track marks or red lines showing the path the insect has traveled.  If you were treated for scabies and it recurs, the bugs must be present somewhere in your environment (most likely your home, unless you know of people you work or attend school with getting them).  You can try bombing your home and cleaning all linen with bleach, but your best bet is to have your home treated by professional pest removers.
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It is some sort of beetle larva, probably a tiger beetle.\n\nSee the link below for pictures.
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The short answer: HISTAMINE.\n\nThe long explanation in the simplest terms I can explain it in: \nWhether as a reaction to the enzymes from the bug's saliva, or from the damaged done from the act of biting, your body sends in the cavalry - mast cells - to the rescue. Mast cells are an important part of the immune system, and whenever there is damage in your body (injury such as a wound, insect bite, etc., or inflammation) OR an invader (allergen, virus, bacteria), the immune system sends mast cells, basophils, and other immune cells to the site of the problem. Mast cells contain several different chemicals, including histamine, which they release through a process called degranulation. Histamine is actually what is causing the itch of the bug bite. It's the same chemical which causes hives and other symptoms of allergy. It's also the reason why a wound often itches as it heals.
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Maggots are the larva stage for houseflies, although other insects' larva are sometimes called maggots too. Typically, flies will land and lay eggs on something that is decaying and probably dead (like a dead cat on the road, or rotting fruit that's fallen from a tree, maggots don't care). If a person had a wound and that person let a fly land and lay eggs in the wound and never washed it, then I suppose you could get maggots on a living person that way. Otherwise, nowadays, its difficult to be a maggot infested person.
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IT'S CALLED A HUMAN BOT FLY\nThe female botfly glues her eggs onto the abdomen of a captured mosquito or other common fly. When the carrier insect lands on a human, the larva, or bot, hatches, burrows into the skin, and positions itself "head down" to feed, breathing through caudal respiratory spiracles. A furuncle with a central pore develops as the bot matures, molting twice until reaching 18 to 24 mm. The larva withdraws through a central punctum, falling to the ground and pupating before emerging as a mature botfly.
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It is a worm, some specie of leeches would suck the blood of larger animals.\nThe link has a picture.
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I don't know how long you can have them before you notice them, but certainly not long aftre they hatch because they itch like hell. Also, it is possible to get them from infected places, but not likely.  I would not believe that he didn't cheat. Especially if he acts like nothing happened.\n\nThe crab louse can live in almost any form of human hair, but is found most commonly in pubic hair, leading to its other common name of pubic louse. Its legs are adapted to climbing along relatively widely spaced hairs, and so can be found in eyelashes, pubic hair, beards, moustaches, and even armpit hairs. The individual louse can survive for ~24 hours apart from its necessary human host, so that crab lice can be passed on in sleeping bags and bedding. The female may lay up to 40 eggs at a time, resulting in a fluctuating but growing population. The louse feeds on blood and can leave irritating spots on the skin, sometimes mistaken for pimples, a condition called Pediculosis pubis.\n\nPubic lice have legs that are spaced further apart than head lice, this is an adaptation that enables them to move around more easily in their habitat.\n\nThe female louse glues her eggs, called "nits", which look like tiny white beads, to hair shafts. Lice bite through the skin to suck blood, and the bite causes itching. Bites can become secondarily infected; scratching may break the skin and help cause secondary infection. The most common symptom of crab lice is itching of genital area.\n\nPubic lice are most commonly spread by sexual contact and are considered a sexually transmitted disease, but can also be spread by sharing clothes or bedding. Contrary to popular belief, pubic lice can also be spread by sitting on a toilet seat.
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Bed bugs infesting a house give off a nasty smell from ‘stink glands’\n\nBedbugs are almost a centimetre long. They feed on blood and leave nasty bite marks.
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Yes it is true that the only mosquitoes which bite animals to take a blood meal are the female mosquitoes.\n\nBoth male and female mosquitoes drink nectar for their primary food source, however the females seek out a blood meal to use the protein in order to develop their very large clutches of eggs.\n\nDifferent species of mosquitoes have different prefered hosts from whom they take their blood meals.  Some, such as Culex pipiens and Culex tarsalis prefer birds as their target, while others prefer large mammals or even reptiles and amphibians.\n\nNot all species of mosquito take blood meals.  The largest species of mosquito, Toxorhyncites speciose of Australia, does not take blood (their larvae are also predatory, and will eat other species of mosquito larvae).\n\nThere are also other species of biting fly, such as horseflies, deerflies (Tabanids), blackflies (Simuliids), no-see-ums (Ceratopogoniids) and others, and in those species it also the female who takes the blood meals.\n\nOther critters, like fleas, lice, and ticks actually feed on the blood, and both males and females bite.
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Cockroaches freak me out. Am I a freak hell yeah. I have tattoos, body piercings, I love pain, and love vampires and Gothic girls.
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The red spotted ant mimic spider, like all spiders, possesses venom glands, and is predatory, however its venom is not dangerous to humans.\n\nI'm not sure why they're actually called ant mimics, since they don't look much like an ant to me.  They look like a pretty black spider with a red stripe down the back of its abdomen to me.