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Eastern bloodsucking conenose

Triatoma sanguisuga
Eats: BloodTrue bugs and cicadasHouses and farms6 legs

The eastern bloodsucking conenose is a dark brown or black bug with a cone-shaped head. Along each side of its wide body it has six reddish-orange spots.

Lives in
North and Latin America, common in the southeastern United States
Length
1.6 to 2.1 cm (0.63 to 0.83 in)
Top speed
about 0.26 km/h (0.16 mph)
On foot, estimate
Can it hurt you?
Dangerous: look, do not touch

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What does it eat?
It drinks blood from animals like raccoons, rats, dogs and cats, and sometimes people. Tree frogs can be an important meal too.
For real!Photo of Eastern bloodsucking conenose
Picture by xpda. CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

How big is it?

How long is it?

Eastern bloodsucking conenose about 2.1 cm long (0.83 in)A grain of rice about 6 mm (0.24 in)A toy building brick about 3.2 cm (1.3 in)A crayon about 9 cm (3.5 in)
as long as 4 grains of rice in a rowcould run across a dinner table in 14 seconds

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cool stuff

Fun facts

1

A baby bug needs a meal of blood each time before it grows. It changes its skin eight times before it is grown up.

2

One female can lay hundreds of eggs in her life.

3

Screens on windows and doors and sealing cracks in the walls help keep it out of the house.

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Most asked questions about Eastern bloodsucking conenose

?How big is the eastern bloodsucking conenose?

It is about 16 to 21 millimetres long.

For bug experts

Scientific name
Triatoma sanguisuga
Named by
LeConte, 1855
Group
True bugs and cicadas
Family
Reduviidae
Classification
Insecta > Hemiptera > Reduviidae
Lives on
North America, South America
Also known as
Kissing bug

Where the facts come from

  1. Triatoma sanguisuga (Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0): what it looks like, where it lives, what it eats, sizes and fun facts, retold in simple words.
  2. Picture by xpda. CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The round sticker of this bug is cut from the same picture.

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