Shearflea

The sensory hairs growing on this creature's orange body segments can detect body temperatures, movement, and carbon-dioxide levels. It clings to its prey with its clawlike front legs and sucks their blood through its pointed proboscis. Research has found that the Shearflea can store energy created while contracting its bellows-like body in the elastic proteins located at the roots of its hind legs, allowing it to repeatedly jump very high. Its reproductive rates are rather explosive. A small group of egg-laying females can boom into a population of over a hundred in a month's time.

Salty, sour, and sometimes sweet. The flavor changes depending on which living creature it's fed from most recently.