Abstract
This book is comprised of 38 chapters covering the taxonomy, morphology, life cycle, behaviour, bionomics, prevention, control and medical and veterinary importance of several arthropods. Focus is given on ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae), bed bugs (Hemiptera: Cimicidae), bees and wasps (Hymenoptera: Apidae, Vespidae and others), beetles (Coleoptera: Meloidae, Oedemeridae, Staphylinidae and others), biting midges (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae), black flies (Diptera: Simuliidae), blow flies and screw-worm flies (Diptera: Calliphoridae), butterflies and moths (Lepidoptera), centipedes (Scolopendromorpha: Scolopendridae, Scolopocryptopidae and Cryptopidae), cockroaches (Blattodea: Blattidae, Blatellidae and Blaberidae), eye flies (Diptera: Chloropidae and Drosophilidae), fleas (Siphonaptera), flesh flies (Diptera: Sarcophagidae), horn flies (Diptera: Muscidae, Haematobia), horse flies (Diptera: Tabanidae), house flies and other non-biting flies (Diptera: Muscidae and Fanniidae), human bot fly/new world skin bot flies (Diptera: Oestridae: Cuterebrinae), keds and louse flies (Diptera: Hippoboscidae), kissing bugs (Hemiptera: Reduviidae), lice (Phthiraptera: Amblycera, Ischnocera and Anoplura), millipedes (Polydesmida and Spirobolida), mites (Arachnida: Acari), mosquitoes (Diptera: Culicidae), nasal bot flies (Diptera: Oestridae, Oestrinae), non-biting midges (Diptera: Chironomidae), sand flies (Diptera: Psychodidae, Phlebotominae), scorpions (Arachnida: Scorpiones), spiders (Arachnida: Araneae), stable flies (Diptera: Muscidae, Stomoxys), stomach bot flies (Diptera: Oestridae, Gasterophilinae), hard ticks (Acari: Ixodidae), soft ticks (Acari: Argasidae), tsetse flies (Diptera: Glossinidae), tumbu flies (Diptera: Calliphoridae) and warble flies/old world skin bot flies (Diptera: Oestridae: Hypodermatinae). This book serves as a standard reference source in veterinary and medical entomology.