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Eastern bloodsucking conenose

Triatoma sanguisuga

只是会疼会疼，但不会对你造成严重伤害。

咬伤吃：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

生活在

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

首页

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

长度

1.6 cm到2.1 cm (0.6 in到0.8 in)1

最高速度

约 0.5 公里/小时（0.31 英里/小时）

在陆地上, 粗略估计

它吃什么？

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.

怎样认出它

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

毒液之力

咬伤

它咬的时候，毒液通过毒牙或牙齿出来。

它对人有多危险？

对人的危险: 很疼可能真的很疼，但几乎从不严重。

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

如果它咬人

被毛毛虫的蜇毛扎到：用胶带把毛粘掉，再清洗皮肤。不要揉。
被咬：清洗并冷敷。如果感到不适或容易出血，就去看医生。

一定先拨打你的急救电话（112、000、911）。这里是一般急救指导，不是医疗建议。急救基础

注意安全

永远不要摸、抓或逗弄野生动物，即使是很小的，即使它看起来在睡觉或已经死了。
给它留出空间。如果遇到它，保持冷静，慢慢后退，让它走自己的路。
如果被它咬了：保持冷静，保持不动，拨打你的急救电话（112、000、911）或尽快去医院。记住它长什么样，拍张照片会有帮助。

它不是冲着你来的。它用毒液捕猎或保护自己，而且它更愿意躲起来。更多安全知识

在世界哪里？

非洲亚洲欧洲北美洲南美洲澳大利亚和大洋洲

它有多大？

它有多长？

差不多和一个回形针一样长

Eastern bloodsucking conenose和你比起来有多大？

只是在你的浏览器里算一算。什么都不会被保存或发送到任何地方。

它有多快？

一只陆龟 约 0.3 公里/小时 (0.19 mph)

Eastern bloodsucking conenose 约 0.5 公里/小时 (0.31 mph)

一个在走路的人 约 5 公里/小时 (3.1 mph)

值得了解

事实

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

谣言粉碎机

谣言： 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

给毒液专家

学名: Triatoma sanguisuga
类别: 毛毛虫和虫子
家人: Reduviidae2
排序: Hemiptera
大洲: 北美洲
宝宝: 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
对人的危险: 2 / 5: 很疼3