《每日邮报》一组微距摄影，按比例说，昆虫才是真正猛兽

来源：英国《每日邮报》http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2194253/Meet-planets-vampire-bugs-spend-waking-moment-looking-ways-extract-blood.html
翻译：译言网http://article.yeeyan.org/view/344649/314225

From our comfortable spot near the top of the food chain, it is easy to forget that we are still prey for numerous animals.
But now, thanks to the wonders of modern micro-photography, it is possible to get up close and personal with the 'vampires' of the animal kingdom and, if you can hold your nerve, take a peek at some of the creepy teeth and feeding equipment of the small insects, ticks and mites that want nothing more than to suck our blood.
From asian tiger mosquitos, that carry the West Nile virus and the Dengue fever virus, to the huge-bloated blood-filled body of a tick just after eating, meet the creatures that see humans as nothing more than giant vats of sweet nectar that need drinking.
我们安逸地呆在接近食物链顶端的地方，很容易忘记其实我们仍然是许多动物的捕食对象。
但是现在借助于现代微观照相技术我们有可能与这些动物王国的“吸血鬼”们做一番近距离的亲密接触，而且只要你够胆大的话，还可以偷偷瞥一眼这些嗜血如命的蚊虫、扁虱和螨虫的恐怖牙齿和进食器官。
从携带西尼罗病毒和登革热病毒的亚洲虎蚊，到饱餐之后满腹是血的扁虱，这些生物的眼里人类不过是大桶满载的糖汁等着它们去饮用。去看看吧！

                               
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Sipping it up: A Tsetse fly (Glossina fuscipes fuscipes) is using its proboscis to feed on the blood of its host. This blood-sucking parasitic fly is found in tropical Africa

采采蝇(Glossina fuscipes fuscipes) 正在用长喙吸食宿主的血液。这种吸血寄生虫常见于热带非洲。

                               
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A crab louse normally lives on the pubic region of humans - and can also be found in eyelashes.
阴虱常生活在人类的阴部，也可见于眼睫毛处。

                               
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Meanwhile an asian tiger mosquito can carry the West Nile virus and the Dengue fever virus

亚洲虎蚊可以携带西尼罗病毒和登革热病毒。

While the images are not one for the squeamish, they do offer an insight into the creatures which have cleverly adapted to drink on fresh blood.
This is a clever evolutionary tactic, providing the creatures with an instant source of nutrient-rich food which is easy to digest, and allows small creatures to feed from much larger prey without getting caught.
这些照片不是用来恶心人的，我们可以通过它们了解这些生物是如何巧妙地适应吸食鲜血。
这（吸血）是个高明的革命性的战术，让这些生物立即可以获得营养丰富、便于消化的食物，并使这些小家伙以更大的猎物维生而不被抓住。
The creatures range from bed-bugs, which can grow four to five millimeters in length. They can survive many temperatures and atmospheric compositions, helping them live almost worldwide.
They can live for up to a year without feeding, but when an unsuspecting human drops their head, they will gorge...
这些生物中有臭虫，它能长到4到5毫米长。它们能存活于不同的温度和大气环境中，这使得它们基本上在全世界都有分布。它们不吃东西也能活上一年，但是当有人不注意碰到它们时，它们就开始狼吞虎咽啦。

                               
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Feeling full? A coloured scanning electron micrograph picture of a blood-filled common sheep tick, swollen in size after feeding on the blood of its mammal host

彩色扫描式电子显微照片中一只普通的吸饱了血的羊蜱蝇，在吸食其哺乳类动物宿主后体形明显膨大。

                               
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Two bed bugs mating: Up to a third of the weight of your pillow could be made up of bugs, dead skin, dust mites and their faeces

你枕头重量的1/3可能都是由臭虫、皮屑、尘螨以及它们的粪便组成的。

                               
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Thirsty for blood: A striped horsefly (Tabanus lineola), with its large compound eyes, is found in the U.S. and parts of Mexico

嗜血的有斑纹的马蝇(Tabanus lineola)有巨大的复眼，见于美国和墨西哥部分地区。

                               
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Luckily this one leaves humans alone: This flea lives on the common pipistrelle (Pipistrellus pipistrellus) bat

幸好这家伙没找人类麻烦：这种跳蚤寄生在伏翼属蝙蝠身上。

                               
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Stop leeching off me: Hirudo medicinalis is a European and Asian bloodsucker. Fully mature adults can be up to 20 cm in length, but luckily for UK residents there are only thought to be about 20 colonies of these creatures within our shores.
欧洲医蛭是生活在欧洲和亚洲的吸血鬼。成虫可达20厘米长，幸好对英国居民来说一般认为在我国陆地上此类生物只有约20种。  

                               
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Meanwhile a biting midge (right) feeds on human blood
一支正在吸食人血的蠓。

                               
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Look away now... The Candiru (Vandellia cirrhosa), a parasitic catfish from South America, has been known to enter the urethra of human bathers

寄生鲇（吸血鲶鱼），来自南非的一种寄生鲶鱼，据信能够钻进人类游泳者的尿道。

                               
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The assassin bug, found all over the world, has both a painful bite and saliva which, when injected into small insects, begins dissolving tissue - and can then be sucked back out

猎蝽：见于全世界，被咬上一口很疼，其唾液注射进小昆虫体内后会溶解组织——然后就能吸出来了。

                               
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欧洲沙蚤：可长至1.5厘米，生活在世界各地沙滩的高潮水位上，夜间出来觅食。

看的皮紧。

枕头扔掉

枕头重量的1/3?这得多少天不清洗呢？

不过嘛，各位有常常换洗床单和晒被子的习惯吗？

有种拿84泡澡的冲动。。。

有种拿盐酸洗澡的冲动！！！！
后来一想,我不是中国人嘛？？？遂一切恢复平静！！！！

啊啊啊，手贱啊！！！

恐怖虫一样。