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Definition of kissing bug in English: kissing bugnoun A bloodsucking North American assassin bug which can inflict a painful bite on humans and often attacks the face. Melanolestes picipes, family Reduviidae, suborder Heteroptera Example sentencesExamples - At night, the kissing bug ventures forth in search of a blood meal, which may be a sleeping pet or human.
- Flying adult kissing bugs are mainly seen during the months of May and June in the greater Tucson area.
- Usually the bite from the kissing bug is on the lips, eyelids or ears of sleeping victims and is painless.
- Like a mosquito, the kissing bug can get a good dinner by preventing the human blood in the vein from clotting.
- The kissing bug does not pass the parasite to victims through its bite, but through its excrement.
Definition of kissing bug in US English: kissing bugnoun A bloodsucking North American assassin bug which can inflict a painful bite on humans and often attacks the face. Example sentencesExamples - Flying adult kissing bugs are mainly seen during the months of May and June in the greater Tucson area.
- At night, the kissing bug ventures forth in search of a blood meal, which may be a sleeping pet or human.
- Usually the bite from the kissing bug is on the lips, eyelids or ears of sleeping victims and is painless.
- Like a mosquito, the kissing bug can get a good dinner by preventing the human blood in the vein from clotting.
- The kissing bug does not pass the parasite to victims through its bite, but through its excrement.
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