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Simulium damnosum
- 1) black flies
- 2) global (north), running water
- 3) females blood
- 4) many hosts
- 5) vec- river blindness
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Chrysops callidus
- 1) deer fly
- 2) global
- 3) females blood
- 4) many host
- 5)
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Tabanus americanus
- 1) horse fly
- 2) global
- 3) females blood
- 4) many host
- 5) vec- anthrax
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Glossina palpalis
- 1) tsetse flie
- 2) africa
- 3) males and females, blood
- 4) many host
- 5) vec- African sleeping sickness
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Lucilia cuprina
- 1) sheep blow fly
- 2) global
- 3) dead carcase or host
- 4) usually one host
- 5)
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Dermatobia hominus
- 1) human botfly
- 2) global
- 3) eggs on insect, lands on host egss hatch and burrow
- 4) indirect on host
- 5)
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Cuterebra fontinalis
- 1) rodent botfly
- 2) Midwest
- 3) maggot near nest
- 4) one host
- 5) medical use
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Petromyzon marinus
- 1) sea lampry
- 2) oceans
- 3) attach to fish
- 4) many host
- 5) adult parasitic
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Vandellia cirrhosa
- 1) candiru
- 2) nile river
- 3) go after urea
- 4) many host
- 5) humans is a myth
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Desmodus rotundus
- 1) vampire bat
- 2) S.A.
- 3) crawls up to host
- 4) many host
- 5)
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Geospiza difficilis
- 1) vampire finch
- 2) galapagos islands
- 3) only drink if have to
- 4) usually eat seeds
- 5) dry season
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