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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.

+100 · 2
  • 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.

+85 · 64
  • 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.

+60 · 11
  • 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.

+30 · 3
  • Bed bug
  • Louse
  • Vampire bat

Plankton

The first thing everyone thinks of.

+10 · 4
  • Flea
  • Leech
  • Mosquito
  • Tick

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