bloodsucking

“Because somehow a bloodsucking vampire is more permissible than a dress,” she quips.

Ticks are small, eight-legged bloodsucking parasites — arachnids, not insects — that feed on animals and sometimes people.

Kluh and her team aren’t as worried about a mosquito invasion at the moment, but she said this is the time to take preventative measures ahead of warmer weather to stave off the bloodsucking insects.

Their skin is thick with tight fuzzed hair, which makes it less amenable to bloodsucking insects like mosquitoes.

They’re not bloodsucking—like mosquitoes, ticks, or bedbugs—so they don’t seek us out.