blood meal

Noun

Meaning

the dried and powdered blood of animals

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After obtaining a full blood meal, the female will rest for a few days while the blood is digested and eggs are developed. Source: Internet

Any anautogenous adult mosquito would need a host to supply a blood meal before it could lay viable eggs; it would need time to mate, mature the eggs and oviposit in suitable wetlands. Source: Internet

As a result, a mosquito replete with blood can continue to absorb sugar, even as the blood meal is slowly digested over a period of several days. Source: Internet

Cause The Oriental rat flea (Xenopsylla cheopsis) engorged with blood after a blood meal. Source: Internet

At the same time, the stomach never becomes full of sugar solution, which would prevent the mosquito taking a blood meal if it had the chance. Source: Internet

Bats that did eat will then regurgitate part of their blood meal to save a conspecific from starvation. Source: Internet

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