Kissing bugs, also known as triatomine bugs or conenose bugs, are blood-sucking insects that get their nickname from their ...

Triatomine bugs (also called reduviid bugs, "kissing" bugs, assassin bugs, cone-nosed bugs, and blood suckers) can live indoors, in cracks and holes of substandard housing, or in a variety of ...

This formal support has been provided for the identification of triatomines from photos, using absolute size measurements 35, remote supervision during insect collection and identification by citizen ...

Adult kissing bugs range from about 0.75 to 1.25 inches in length. Most species have a very characteristic band around the edge of the body that is striped with orange or red markings.

Jennifer K. Peterson, University of Delaware assistant professor and medical entomologist, is studying the kissing bug in Delaware over the summer in a study funded by Delaware INBRE. She is setting ...

Kissing bugs can spread Chagas disease, and you might not even know you were bitten. Here's what kissing bugs look like and how to get rid of them.

Here are some general ways you can identify a kissing bug, according to Orkin: Size and shape: Kissing bugs are generally about 0.75 to 1.25 inches long.

Feb. 19—ATHENS — A kiss has such romantic appeal, yet some kisses just end in heartbreak. A smooch from the Rhodnius prolixus, or the blood-sucking "kissing bug," could be characterized more ...

Kissing bugs tend to bite people on the face and near the mouth. They carry a parasite called Trypanosoma cruzi, which can develop into an infection. Triatomine bugs, or triatomines, are native to ...

While experts often warn of mosquitoes and other disease-carrying bugs, the deadly kissing bug continues to be overlooked in the U.S., as it disproportionately affects poor Hispanic communities.

While health experts often warn of mosquitoes and other disease-carrying bugs, the deadly kissing bug — a k a the triatomine bug, which kills 10,000 people per year globally — continues to be ...

If a kissing bug is found outside the home and NOT suspected of biting a human, it may be sent to the University of Nebraska-Lincoln Insect Diagnostician Kyle Koch for identification by calling ...