Parasitic insects recruited to collect blood samples:
Quote: "Meet the latest discovery in high-tech syringes. It's the bloodsucking insect Dipetalogaster maximus, and it can take up to 4 millilitres of blood in one meal. What's more, the donor doesn't feel a thing, because it injects an anaesthetic. The insects are being put to work by Christian Voigt of the Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research in Berlin. He is breeding them as a way to get blood samples from wild animals that are difficult to sample in any other way." Link
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