The Biology of Blood-Sucking in Insects / Edition 2

by M. J. Lehane

Overview

Fully updated since it was first published in 1991, this second edition focuses on the biological modifications common to blood-sucking insects and outlines their medical, social and economic impact. It also covers host-insect interactions and the transmission of parasites by blood-sucking insects. The final chapter is designed as a useful quick-reference section.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780521543958
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Publication date:	06/09/2005
Edition description:	REV
Pages:	336
Product dimensions:	5.98(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.67(d)

About the Author

Mike Lehane is Professor of Medical Entomology in the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine.

Table of Contents

1. The importance of blood-sucking insects; 2. The evolution of the blood-sucking habit; 3. Feeding preferences of blood-sucking insects; 4. Location of the host; 5. Ingestion of the blood meal; 6. Managing the blood meal; 7. Host-insect interactions; 8. Transmission of parasites by blood-sucking insects; 9. The blood-sucking insect groups.

Editorial Reviews

'In this well-written book, Lehane provides a masterly and well-referenced summary of key aspects of the biology of blood-sucking habit … This is an accessible and comprehensive introduction to this important subject and deserves to be widely used.' Biologist

'… provides perhaps the most comprehensive, and a very readable, teaching text for medical entomology available today … the book provides an excellent start point for students and researchers into all the subject areas associated with blood-feeding insects … This is a great follow up to a good first edition. The Biology of Blood-Sucking in Insects will be used by teachers of medical entomology, and the cost leaves it well within the student budget. I will be recommending this excellent text to my students.' Parasitology

'… a useful and up-to-date book that will be of interest to medical and veterinary medical entomologists and parasitologists …' Journal of Insect Conservation

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