Ticks don’t merely insert their horrifying mouthparts into you; they dig their way in via flesh-ripping hooks and then anchor themselves with a proboscis that’s studded with barbs—the little ...

From the tiniest tick to the buzzing mosquito ... Mosquitoes, the deadliest animals on Earth, use a sophisticated proboscis equipped with six needles to pierce human skin. As the narrator explains ...

From top to bottom, left to right, the images show: the cross section of a lily bud; the proboscis of a blowfly; a sheep tick; a diatom; a section through the human scalp; and a vertical ...