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Bed bugs are parasitic insects of the cimicid family that feed exclusively on blood.

Cimex lectularius, the common bed bug, is the best known as it prefers to feed on human blood.

Other Cimex species specialize in other animals, e.g., bat bugs, such as Cimex pipistrelli (Europe), Cimex pilosellus (western US), and Cimex adjunctus (entire eastern US).

Termites are eusocial insects that are classified at the taxonomic rank of infraorder Isoptera, or as epifamily Termitoidae within the cockroach order Blattodea.

Termites were once classified in a separate order from cockroaches, but recent phylogenetic studies indicate that they evolved from close ancestors of cockroaches during the Jurassic or Triassic.

However, the first termites possibly emerged during the Permian or even the Carboniferous.

About 3,106 species are currently described, with a few hundred more left to be described.

Although these insects are often called "white ants", they are not ants.

Mosquitoes are small, midge-like flies that constitute the family Culicidae.

Females of most species are ectoparasites, whose tube-like mouthparts (called a proboscis) pierce the hosts' skin to consume blood.

The word "mosquito" (formed by mosca and diminutive -ito) is Spanish for "little fly".

Thousands of species feed on the blood of various kinds of hosts, mainly vertebrates, including mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and even some kinds of fish.

Some mosquitoes also attack invertebrates, mainly other arthropods.

Though the loss of blood is seldom of any importance to the victim, the saliva of the mosquito often causes an irritating rash that is a serious nuisance.

Much more serious though, are the roles of many species of mosquitoes as vectors of diseases.

In passing from host to host, some transmit extremely harmful infections such as malaria, yellow fever, Chikungunya, West Nile virus, dengue fever, filariasis, Zika virus and other arboviruses, rendering it the deadliest animal family in the world.

Pest control refers to the regulation or management of a species defined as a pest, and can be perceived to be detrimental to a person's health, the ecology or the economy.

A practitioner of pest control is called an exterminator.