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About 25% of mammal species in Brazil belong to Order Chiroptera. There are 174 described species. Bats present important functions within ecosystems, as pollination, seed dispersal and the population control of insects. The habitat fragmentation process, characterized by the continuing decline of n...

The bat is a synanthropic animal and is considered the second most important species in the transmission of rabies to humans in Brazil: nearly 12% of human cases are transmitted by bats. Among bats, the main transmitter is Desmodus rotundus (Chiroptera: Phyllostomidae) that has a preference for the ...

Of the 1,120 chiropteran species identified worldwide, 172 occur in Brazil; among them 47 are recorded in urban environments, most compounded by insectivorous bats. These animals have used the resources furnished direct or indirectly by humans, as food and shelter. Their incoming in buildings, the e...

The bed bug Cimex lectularius L. is blood-feeding parasite of humans, bats and different domestic animals. In the early 1990s, pest management professionals began to see an increase in beg bug infestations across the world. Now the bed bug problem is very important in many countries, however, in Rus...

The most common species of bed bugs in the world is Cimex lectularius Linnaeus, 1758. This species prefers to feed on human blood and causes several health effects like skins rashes, psychological effects and allergic symptoms. In the developed world bed bugs were largely eradicated as pests in the ...

Education has been enrolled as a component of Integrated Pest Management (IPM) programs, but in fact it should be more than that. Urban pests are so intrinsically related to human life and habits that we can always find where, when and how people (or costumers) can act helping to change urban pest p...