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Eastern bloodsucking conenose

Triatoma sanguisuga

只是會痛會痛，但不會對你造成嚴重傷害。

咬吃：肉

The eastern bloodsucking conenose is a winged insect that feeds on blood. It belongs to the group called kissing bugs and lives across North America and Latin America, especially in the southeastern United States. It matters because it can carry the parasite that causes Chagas disease.1

分布在

North America and Latin America; common in the Southeastern United States, south of Pennsylvania, north to Ohio and Missouri, and west to Arizona1

北美洲

首頁

It is found in the eastern United States and across Latin America. People meet it in homes, where it bites sleeping people, usually on the face around the mouth or eyes.1

長度

1,6 cm 到 2,1 cm (0,6 in 到 0,8 in)1

最高速度

大約 0,5 km/h（0,31 mph）

在陸地上, 粗略估計

牠吃什麼？

It feeds on the blood of mammals such as raccoons, rats, dogs, cats and humans. Tree frogs can also be a significant source of food.1

Eastern bloodsucking conenose 的照片 — Eastern bloodsucking conenose。照片：Justin Williams。 CC BY 4.0, iNaturalist.

怎麼認出牠

Generally 16 to 21 mm long1
Black or dark brown, with six reddish-orange spots along each side of a wide abdomen1
Has wings1
Has kinked, six-segmented antennae and a slender, tapered proboscis used for feeding1

毒液力量

咬

咬的時候，毒液會從毒牙或牙齒出來。

牠對人有多危險？

對人的危險: 疼痛可能會非常痛，但幾乎從來不會很嚴重。

Its bites are usually not particularly painful, but they are irritating. Bites can spread Trypanosoma cruzi, which causes Chagas disease. An estimated six to eight million people are currently infected, mainly in South America, with around 28,000 new cases each year. Documented cases in the United States are rare, with seven human infections from any Triatoma species reported in Texas, California, Tennessee and Louisiana.1

如果牠咬人

被會螫人的毛毛蟲毛刺到時：用膠帶把毛黏起來，再清洗皮膚。不要搓揉。
被咬時：清洗並冷敷。如果傷者覺得不舒服或容易流血，要就醫。

一定要先打緊急電話（112、000、911）。這是一般急救指引，不是醫療建議。急救基本知識

注意安全

絕對不要碰、抓或捉弄野生動物，就算是很小的動物，就算牠看起來在睡覺或已經死了也一樣。
給牠空間。如果遇到了，保持冷靜，慢慢往後退，讓牠自己離開。
如果被牠咬了：保持冷靜，保持不動，打緊急電話（112、000、911）或趕快去醫院。記住牠的樣子，有照片會很有幫助。

牠不是想來抓你。牠用毒液來捕捉食物或保護自己，而且牠更想躲起來。更多安全知識

在世界上的哪裡？

非洲亞洲歐洲北美洲南美洲澳洲與大洋洲

牠有多大？

牠有多長？

大約跟一根迴紋針一樣長

Eastern bloodsucking conenose 跟「你」比起來有多大？

只是在你的瀏覽器裡做算術。什麼都不會儲存，也不會傳送到任何地方。

牠有多快？

一隻陸龜 大約 0,3 km/h (0,19 mph)

Eastern bloodsucking conenose 大約 0,5 km/h (0,31 mph)

一個正在走路的人 大約 5 km/h (3,1 mph)

值得知道

小知識

It bites people in the face, usually around the mouth or eyes, most often while they are asleep.1

At one location in Louisiana, 40% of these bugs were found to carry Trypanosoma cruzi, and 38% of those had fed on humans.1

Annual new cases of Chagas disease fell from about 700,000 in 1990 to around 28,000 today.1

破解迷思

迷思： A bite from this bug directly gives you Chagas disease.

真相： Infection usually happens when the bug's faeces get into the bite site, for example when a sleeping person scratches or rubs their face. This species does not defecate while feeding, which makes transmission much less likely.1

給毒液專家

學名: Triatoma sanguisuga
類群: 毛毛蟲和其他蟲子
家人: Reduviidae2
排序: Hemiptera
各大洲: 北美洲
寶寶: The female typically lays eggs four to six days after a blood meal, and one female may lay hundreds of eggs in her lifetime. After hatching, the young bug feeds on blood and moults eight times before it becomes an adult.1
對人的危險: 2 / 5: 疼痛3