Sentence examples for fed on human from inspiring English sources

None of the blood-fed sand flies collected seemed to have fed on human hosts.

He argues that the dragon image, fermented in the primal soup of man's first nightmares, is a composite of the carnivores who fed on human ancestors when they were tree-dwelling monkeys: the pythons, the big cats and the raptors.

The Baylor group also collected 40 kissing bugs near homes in 11 central-southern Texas counties and found that half had fed on human blood as well as that of a dozen kinds of animals ranging from dogs to raccoons.

Mosquitoes were fed on human arms twice a week.

RNA from A. aquasalis fed on human blood infected or not with P. vivax was extracted with TRIzol (Invitrogen), messenger RNA (mRNA) was purified using the NucleoTrap® mRNA Mini Purification Kit (Clontech) and cDNAs used for subtractions were synthesized using the PCR-Select™ cDNA Subtraction Kit (Clontech).

Feeding of Rhodnius prolixus and T. dimidiata collected from houses in Guatemala, examined with ELISA, showed that more had fed on human than other species, both species fed on opossum, and, for the insects examined, only R. prolixus fed on chicken and only T. dimidiata on cow [24].

Vampire bats even feed on human blood.

In contrast, it was more likely that there was only one source when bugs fed on humans or cows.

Vectors that had fed on humans were predominantly collected in human habitations, and only one insect that had fed on humans was collected outside of houses.

In the neighboring Thailand, 100% of field-collected populations of this mosquito fed on humans [64].

Cx. pipiens fed on humans in June and August and on deer throughout the summer.