Sky Bloodbee

Sky Bloodbee
(Hematoapis aerosanguis)
Information
Creator	Disgustedorite Other
Week/Generation	26/165
Habitat	Sagan 4 Troposphere
Size	2.5 cm long
Primary Mobility	Unknown
Support	Exoskeleton (Chitin)
Diet	Parasite (Blood, trichomes, mucus, and urine of Soaring Phlyer and Hairy Sky Phlyer)
Respiration	Semi-Active (Unidirectional Tracheae)
Thermoregulation	Heterotherm (Basking, Muscle-Generated Heat)
Reproduction	Sexual (Hermaphrodite, Eggs)
Taxonomy
Domain Kingdom Subkingdom Phylum Class Subclass Order Suborder Superfamily Family Genus Species	Eukaryota Binucleozoa Symbiovermes (info) Thoracocephalia Optidorsalia Polyptera (info) Cataleipoptera Membranopennes Xenoapoidea Xenoapidae Hematoapis Hematoapis aerosanguis

Ancestor:	Descendants:
Xenobees

The sky bloodbee split from its ancestor, a small bloodbee-like xenobee, and ascended into the sky. It feeds on the mucus, blood, urine-sweat, and other fluids of high-soaring phlyers and nests within the leaves of sky flora. To drink blood, as it cannot create wounds on its own, it takes advantage of pre-existing wounds created by blood tropoflies and sucks the blood out with its suction cup-like mouth. It is able to keep up with the eternally-flying plents by catching and flying inside of their slipstream. It only feeds for a short time before returning to its nest so that it does not become separated from its social group and offspring. As its eyes are on its abdomen, it flies backwards.

The sky bloodbee nests communally. It uses silk to tie many small flying plants such as cloudgrasses and young grumps to one another and utilizes a mixture of silk and cloudgrump leaves for support and insulation. It is a hermaphrodite and mates via cloacal kiss. It performs parental care, regurgitating partially digested blood, mucus, urine, and trichomes for its larvae to consume.