Plant Eating Bugs

Bugs often gather near vertebrate animals, in burrows and in wet places. If a species is hunting those bugs, it's going to end up in close proximity to these vertebrates where it could potentially transition to using those mouth parts. And as we mentioned before, mosquitoes mostly eat plant juices. The vampire moths also mainly eat fruit. So these are two groups where it seems like that may have, you were already well adapted for eating blood,. Even before you started eating blood, you're good at eating the juices of fleshy bodiesy.

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