Word: cicadas
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...lectularius; his more obese cousin, cimex rotundatus, infests the Orient. It is at night that he marauds, hiding in crevices in daytime. He confines his activities to man, whose blood he sucks, upon whose body he makes his permanent home. Among the bedbug's relations is the singing cicada, who lives on plants and, sucking, makes merry music. Unrelated is the louse but often cooperate. As the bedbug prefers an uncleanly environment, he is taboo as a subject of polite conversation...