Summertime means insects with pincers might be roaming around town ... because these "are strong and sharp enough to draw blood." Don't worry, these bites aren't venomous.

By feeding on blood-fed female Anopheles at a time of day ... these specialists use one of three main tactics to grasp prey: the pincer, the fork, and the key. Each strategy is associated with ...

Their pincers are used for self-defense and to help ... In some cases, the pinch might even be hard enough to break your skin or draw blood. However, it’s not as likely for an earwig to draw ...

The tips of the spines have claw like pincers called pedicellariae that allow ... Tissue necrosis is when skin cells don’t get enough oxygen or blood, and they die. It happens after the skin ...

All blood-sucking organisms ... may detach themselves by moving their mouthparts around and retracting their pincers. They may also use their saliva to dissolve the cement. As fascinating as ...

The blood may be lifesaving for humans ... jellyfish—and there are at least eight shrimps clinging to the crab’s pincers. Horseshoe crabs are relatively unstudied; little is known about ...

But Dracula ants — in the genus Mystrium, and so called because they sometimes feed on the blood of their young — press their two front pincers together before slipping them past each other ...