I squished a bug and blood came out.

Question

I squished a bug earlier today and instead of gooey yellow coming out, blood came out. Thats scary. Can anyone tell me what type of bug(s) do that? It was black with kind of longer legs but it was not a spider. It was skinny. It looked similar to a mosquito but could have been something else.

Answer 1

its a mosquito. when it sucks ur blood it goes into its lower body and when u squished it, it popped. It had just eaten.  

Answer 2

No it's a parasite, I have the same problem right now. You can get something called scabies. Wasn't it brown and small like a size of an ant?

Answer 3

i was a mosquito probably. thats the only blood sucking animal i know that looks like a spider.

Answer 4

youcantseeme has the closest to right answer..

all insects DO have blood and an open circualtory system.. the yellowish green colored goo is in fact the guts and other organs of the insect.. i don't know why it's THAT hard to believe that 3 people felt it was necissary to give him a (very uneducated) thumbs down

Answer 5

All bugs bleed. Every bug has blood in it. The gooey yellow stuff that comes out is the bug's guts.  

Answer 6

A number of bugs feed on blood, from any warm blooded animal, which includes US, human beings. Flying insects are few though, and the only one I am sure of is the mosquito. which is the size and shape you describe. Other flying insects bite and draw blood, such as certain wasps and dragon flies but do not consume blood as a rule. There are MANY crawling insects that feed on blood, ticks, bedbugs, fleas, lice and the like. Most insects of any kind do not have red blood as you and I do, but they DO have blood circulating, which when squished, does come out with the rest of their bodily fluids, but the yellow/green stuff exists in a much larger quantity so you are not likely to see any blood unless they are one of the blood suckers which has recently fed.