For mosquitoes, this is biting by adult females or, for disease transmission, female biting after a prior infected blood meal followed by pathogen incubation within the mosquito.
Turns out it's not only rottweilers you can stop biting by sticking a finger up their arse.
DEET won't keep a mosquito from approaching, but it can stop her from biting by jamming the cells in the insect's antennas that are sensitive to lactic acid.
The need for success on the NHS will be acute because the cuts, based on the Lib Dems' tough deficit stance pushed by the former left-leaning SDP economist Chris Huhne, will be biting by the summer.
Manchester United ruined Luis Suárez's return from a 10-match ban for biting by beating visiting Liverpool, 1-0, on Wednesday in the third round of England's League Cup, relieving some early-season pressure on Manager David Moyes.
The sports commentator Marv Albert was recently accused of engaging in this type of biting by a woman who has now pressed assault charges, a reminder that the consequences of too deep a nip are not just medical but possibly legal.
We determined the lateral pulling forces applied to nets through biting by cod in a laboratory set-up.
As a model of foods for dysphagia patients, the gels were soft enough to be eaten by compression between the tongue and the hard palate without biting by the teeth.
We believe this is the first clear demonstration of suicidal biting by any insect worker.
By contrast, sleeping under an ITN in the location with susceptible mosquitoes decreased the odds of biting by 66%.
Male-only releases can offer improved per-male efficiency (McInnis et al. 1994; Rendón et al. 2000, 2004) and reduced female-specific damage in the field, such as oviposition damage by fruit flies or biting by mosquitoes.
