page_title: List of feeding behaviours
hierarchical_section_title: List of feeding behaviours
caption_attribution_description: An Anopheles stephensi mosquito is obtaining a blood meal from a human host through its pointed proboscis. Note the droplet of blood being expelled from the abdomen after having engorged itself on its host’s blood. This mosquito is a known malarial vector with a distribution that ranges from Egypt all the way to China. Source: CDC
context_page_description: Feeding is the process by which organisms, typically animals, obtain food. Terminology often uses either the suffixes -vore, -vory, -vorous from Latin vorare, meaning "to devour", or -phage, -phagy, -phagous from Greek φαγεῖν, meaning "to eat".
context_section_description: Feeding is the process by which organisms, typically animals, obtain food. Terminology often uses either the suffixes -vore, -vory, -vorous from Latin vorare, meaning "to devour", or -phage, -phagy, -phagous from Greek φαγεῖν (phagein), meaning "to eat".
caption: A mosquito drinking blood (hematophagy) from a human (note the droplet of plasma being expelled as a waste)
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