Krillion prompt · October 31, 2026
Name an animal that feeds on blood
Krillion accepted 84 answers for this prompt in Dive #108. They’re all below, starting at the trench floor with the gems and rising to the Plankton everyone thinks of first.
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Notes on this prompt
- With 84 accepted answers, this prompt is narrower than a typical Krillion prompt (about 585), so there’s less room to go deep.
- 64 answers (76%) are Deep Cuts and 11 are Rare, while 4 sit at Plankton.
Quick picks
The shortest Rare or deeper answers, easy to type before the timer runs out.
Lamprey +60 Deer fly +60 Hookworm +60
Also accepted elsewhere
The same answer counted for a different prompt in the archive.
Every accepted answer
One in a Krillion
The gem picked for each prompt. Trench floor.
- Cooper's nutmeg snail
A sea snail that drinks blood from sleeping angel sharks.
- Vampire moth
Calyptra moths pierce skin with a fruit-piercing proboscis to drink blood.
Deep Cut
Real obscurity. This is where the list gets long.
- Acanthobdella
- Aega psora
- Anchor worm
- Avian vampire fly
- Barber's pole worm
- Bat bug
- Bat fly
- Bat wing mite
- Bird blowfly
- Bird nasal mite
- Biting snipe fly
- Blood fluke
- Bopyrid isopod
- Candiru
- Carnus fly
- Chicken body louse
- Chigoe flea
- Cod worm
- Congo floor maggot
- Cymothoid isopod
- Diplozoon
- Dog whipworm
- Dracula ant
- Elephant louse
- Face fly
- Fish louse
- Frog-biting midge
- Gapeworm
- Gill louse
- Gnathiid isopod
- Head fly
- Hood mockingbird
- Horn fly
- House mouse mite
- Kissing bug
- Large strongyle
- Liver fluke
- Louse fly
- Mexican chicken bug
- Nest skipper fly
- Northern fowl mite
- Passeromyia
- Pelican pouch louse
- Pennella
- Pigeon bug
- Polystoma
- Red mite
- Sea louse
- Snake mite
- Spiny rat mite
- Stable fly
- Swallow bug
- Sycorax moth fly
- Tongue worm
- Tongue-eating louse
- Tracheal mite
- Tristan thrush
- Tropical fowl mite
- Tropical rat mite
- Vampire beetle
- Vampire snail
- Vampire wasp
- Varroa mite
- Water mite
Rare
Genuinely uncommon. A strong pick on any prompt.
- Biting midge
- Black fly
- Deer fly
- Heartworm
- Hookworm
- Horsefly
- Lamprey
- Oxpecker
- Sand fly
- Tsetse fly
- Vampire finch
Schooler
Solid, but you’re swimming with the crowd.
- Bed bug
- Louse
- Vampire bat
Plankton
The first thing everyone thinks of.
- Flea
- Leech
- Mosquito
- Tick