Are bedbugs mosquitoes parasites

Answer 1

There are two species from the insect order of Hemipetrawhich are "parasites" in the sense that they feed on the blood of humans usually when we are fast asleep in bed at night. The two species known as Cimex Lectularius(originally from temperate climate areas) and Cimex Rotundatus (originally from tropical climate regions) are closely related. Today because of international air travel, either specy may be found anywhere in the world. This is because people often pick them up when in a tropical country and may unwittingly carry them back in their luggage to where they live perhaps thousands of miles away. Bedbugs have flat oval shaped bodies, very short fore-wings and their mouths have been adapted to pierce people's skin and suck blood out of you. But before starting to do that, it injects an anaesthetic into you to make you go numb round where it is going to bite you and a coagulant to stop the blood coming out of you too fast. That is why you do not usually feel anything neither while it is piercing your skin nor when it inserts a tiny tube into you nor while it is sucking your blood even if you are awake! But in most cases people stay asleep while the bedbugs are feeding off them. Only after the bedbug has left them will the anaesthetic wear off and then you may feel a maddening itch and want to scratch to obtain relief. Each bedbug will be on you having its meal for anything from 2 or 3 minutes to 10 or more minutes. When it has completed its meal it will leave you and crawl back along your sheet. It will then be perhaps 12 times heavier than when it came in because of the additional weight of the blood it now has in its stomach , so will no longer be flat looking but now expanded and reddish coloured, looking rather like a ladybug (ladybird). After its meal it will crawl along your sheet to a hiding place which will be near where you sleep, perhaps in a fold or inside your mattress, in the bed structure, perhaps in the floor under your bed or in nearby furniture or a small crevice in the wall, and unless disturbed during the day, such as by you when you make your bed, it will remain in its hiding place until it comes out for another meal on a subsequent night. If you are unfortunate enough to get a bedbug problem in your bed, there will be many and they are likely to breed and multiply so there will be more and more infesting the bed over time, unless steps are taken to exterminate them, but getting rid of them all by yourself is notoriously difficult.

Answer 2

Yes.

The word parasite simply describes an organism that benefits at the expense of the host. Parasites are generally categorized as organisms that can't keep itself alive unless it feeds of off/lives inside another organism. Bed bugs fit this description.