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Although they feed upon the blood of their victims, they will also often spray this blood back into their prey's eyes to distort their vision.[2] The bog standard of bloodbugs, these mutated insects attack in swarms, piercing their prey with a needle like proboscis and feeding on their blood.
Characteristics
Biology
Bloodbugs appear to be roughly two feet in length from the head to the tip of the abdomen. Bloodbugs possess muddy brown coloration which allows them to camouflage effectively into the environment of the Commonwealth and Appalachia. Like their pre-War ancestors, bloodbugs possess six long double-jointed limbs, one pair of finely-veined wings, a small expandable sac to hold blood, and a long, pointed proboscis that extends from between two compound eyes.
The proboscis is the bloodbug's primary means of assault, sinking it into prey almost like a syringe and inflicting minor-to-intermediate radiation poisoning on the victim. The proboscis can be collected by the player character upon the bloodbug's death. As many other creatures, bloodbugs are vulnerable to the Scorched plague.
A younger variant of the adult bloodbug, their exoskeleton has not had time to harden to the extent of more mature bloodbugs, thus they are paler and weaker.
A rare variant of the bloodbug. They are of similar size to normal bloodbugs, but their bodies are tinted red. They are markedly more aggressive and much deadlier than other variants.
They possess more health than a normal adult bloodbug and deal more damage per hit. Some specimens also have green exoskeletons. the name suggests that they are infected with some kind of disease.
The vampiric bloodbug can be found in various locations throughout the Commonwealth and Appalachia. It is the strongest variant of these creatures, and is much more deadly than its counterparts.
In Fallout: Wasteland Warfare, the unit expansion for bloodbugs refers to the creatures as "blood bugs". However, every other mention of the creatures in Fallout: Wasteland Warfare uses the compounded form of the name: "bloodbugs".
↑Fallout 4 loading screen hints: "Not only do Bloodbugs suck the blood of their victims, but they will often shoot it back at them, causing distorted vision."
