Their name may not sound very scary, but "kissing bugs" can be even worse than bedbugs. They're bigger and more aggressive and, more importantly, often bite people's faces to drink their blood.

Uncle Sam wants you — to drink snake blood, eat bugs and slaughter chickens. U.S. Marines participating in jungle survival courses in Thailand are captured in a series of startling photos ...

Bedbugs are small parasitic insects that feed on human blood ... structure called a proboscis to pierce the skin and drink a person’s blood. The pests are most active when humans are asleep ...

Lice are types of parasitic insects that feed on human blood ... Like adult lice, nymphs need human blood to survive. Lice drink human blood several times per day. The amount of blood you lose ...

People are being reminded to stay vigilant for ticks this summer. The eight-legged blood-sucking creatures are occasionally brought into the house on pets and can be picked up by humans after ...

Female mosquitoes need to drink blood of some kind in order to lay eggs ... This, said researcher Christopher Holmes, could give the insects more opportunities to spread diseases, such as malaria ...

But insects found trapped in amber ... (Most of the time, so do females: They only drink blood when they need extra protein to produce their eggs.) It’s long been thought by scientists that ...

They almost never hide in plain sight and they sneak out while we’re sleeping to feast on our blood. Bed bugs are everywhere in Michigan, with four cities across the state ranking among the ...