A Handbook of the Gnats or Mosquitoes

Handbook of the Gnats or Mosquitos, 2nd Edition

Efficacy on Ticks

Picaridin is perfect balance of efficacy, safety and user-friendliness. It repels a wide variety of pests including mosquitoes, ticks, biting flies, sand flies, gnats, chiggers, and midges. It is the longest lasting repellent with up to 14 hours of protection against mosquitoes and ticks and up to 8 hours against a variety of flies, chiggers and gnats. It’s non-greasy, has a pleasant low odor a...

Address on Malaria to the Congress at Eastbourne.)

When I was a student of medicine, we were taught that malaria was not an infectious disease—i.e., not transmissible from person to person—and that it was originated by inhaling bad air. It was regarded as the type of the miasmatic as contrasted with the contagious diseases. What a change has taken place since then! Now we know that malaria can be transmitted when one injects the blood of a mala...

A Handbook of the Mosquitoes of North America

account of mosquitoes in general and of the North American mosquitoes in particular. In the first part of the book, he deals with the general morphology and life-history of the mosquitoes, discusses their relation to disease transmission and gives a resume of the different methods of mosquito control. The latter part of the book deals with the descriptions of the common mosquitoes of North Amer...

سن آنوفل استفنسی ناقل مهم مالاریا، به روش کروماتو گرافی مایع (HPLC)

Background and Aim: Determination of the age of vector mosquitoes is of particular importance in epidemiological studies of diseases transmitted by them, such as viral and parasitic diseases. The objective of this study was to determine the daily age of Anopheles stephensi based on changes in pteridine concentration in female mosquito cuticles by liquid chromatography (HPLC). Methods and Materi...