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The Phlebotominae include many genera of blood-feeding (hematophagous) flies, including the primary vectors of leishmaniasis. Species belonging to the genus Phlebotomus are responsible of the transmission of this important parasitic disease in Europe. Leishmaniasis is a zoonotic disease, widely spre...
The UK employs a multi-faceted approach to surveillance for invasive Aedes species, including active methods, designed to target particular, potentially higher locations, and passive methods, providing a means for the general public and relevant professional groups to submit mosquito samples for ide...
In 2003 the invasive Asian tiger mosquito, Aedes albopictus arrived in Southern Switzerland for the first time. It has since then been continuously surveyed and controlled using ovitraps for monitoring alongside targeted applications of larvicides (Bti and diflubenzuron) and larval source reduction....
Brazil occupies nearly half of South America and is the fifth largest country in the world by geographical area. Brazil’s biodiversity reserves are the greatest in the world and urban pest diversity is not any different. It is estimated that 85 percent of the inhabitants in the country live in urban...
The processes of urbanization is accompanied by attraction to settlements, the synanthropization, of many systematic groups of animals including arthropods. Synanthropization of some vectors of diseases agents, means augmentation of their contacts to people and increase of epidemiological danger. Th...
The present paper describes a test procedure with human volunteers used for a comparative investigation of tick repellents. Eight commercially available repellents were tested against the tickIxodes ricinus (L.) and several test criteria described. Ticks were placed on a copper plate situated on an ...
Modem society has moved from an agricultural base to one that is urbanized. A majority of the world's population, in both developed and developing countries, lives in towns, cities, or large metropolitan areas. Urbanization can often lead to conditions of overcrowding, substandard or inadequate hous...