Bloodsucker's fleshy bum prodded by soldiers (8)
I believe the answer is:
horsefly
'bloodsucker's' is the definition.
The answer and definition can be both animals as well as being singular nouns.
Maybe there's a link between them I don't understand?
'fleshy bum prodded by soldiers' is the wordplay.
'bum' indicates an anagram (bum can mean faulty or wrong).
'prodded by' indicates putting letters inside (prod can mean to poke a hole into something).
'soldiers' becomes 'OR' (Other Ranks).
'fleshy' anagrammed gives 'hsefly'.
'hsefly' enclosing 'or' is 'HORSEFLY'.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Another definition for horsefly that I've seen is " sucker".)