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Description: |
xx, 213 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm |
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Bibliography Note: |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [202]-204) and index. |
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Contents Note: |
Contents: Mites and ticks: acarina -- Their biology as an aid to identification -- Mites -- Scab mites, mange mites and others: Astigmata -- Chiggers, follicle mites and others: Prostigmata -- Bird mites and others: Mesostigmata -- Beetle mites or oribatid mites: Cryptostigmata -- Ticks -- Introduction to soft and hard ticks -- General features -- Life cycles -- Insects: Insecta -- Flies: Diptera -- General introduction to the flies -- Nematoceran flies -- Brachyceran flies -- Cyclorrhaphan flies -- Lice: Phthiraptera -- Introduction to the lice -- Sucking lice: Anoplura. |
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Contents: Ischnoceran chewing lice -- Amblyceran chewing lice -- Fleas: Siphonaptera -- Introduction to the fleas -- Blood sucking bugs: Hemiptera -- Triatomine bugs -- Bed bugs: Cimex -- Other arthropods and methods -- Other harmful arthropods -- Scorpions -- Whipscorpions -- Spiders -- Solpugids -- Millipedes -- Centipedes -- Bees -- Wasps and hornets -- Ants -- Beetles -- Caterpillars -- Moths -- Fruit flies -- Thrips -- Crustaceans -- Tongue worms -- Delusions of infestation -- Methods for identification -- Collection -- Fresh specimens for pathogen isolation, blood-meal tests and age-grading. |
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Contents: Preservation -- Examination of specimens -- Summary of clinical signs of direct parasitic damage caused by arthropods -- Summary of diseases and causative pathogens commonly transmitted by arthropods. |
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