Article: Assassin

Article: tsetse fly
World Encyclopedia;      53 words ......housefly, it has a grey thorax and a yellow to brown abdomen. Females transmit a cattle disease. Almost 80% of flies that bite humans are males, which carry sleeping sickness . Length: to 16mm (0.6in). Order Diptera; family Muscidae; genus Glossina.

Article: Thought Your Holiday Guests Departed? Not Spiders.
Business Wire;  January 13, 2009 ;     374 words ......with its bite, the brown recluse spider typically does not bite humans unless threatened. These spiders can produce painful bites...basements and closets. Similarly, black widow spiders do not bite humans instinctively. However, when they do bite, they can cause...

Article: Cimicidae
A Dictionary of Zoology;      83 words ......bedbug; Oeciacus hirundinis (martin bug) is a nest parasite of birds (especially house martins) that may enter houses and bite humans after its principal hosts have moved to their winter quarters. A few cimicids feed on pollen. They occur in all parts of the...

Article: Rickettsia parkeri in Argentina.(DISPATCHES)(Report)
Emerging Infectious Diseases;  December 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ......Neotropical Amblyomma tick species that bite humans, including Amblyomma triste (1,2; Figure...at least 15 species of hard ticks bite humans (1); however, the only Amblyomma tick reported to bite humans in the lower Parana River Delta is...

Article: My Sister the Vampire #2: Fangtastic!(Book review)
MBR Bookwatch;  March 1, 2008 ;     401 words ......For instance, the vampires depicted in this book were the very opposite of traditional vampires: it was against the law to bite humans, and there hadn't been a record of a bite for thousands of years. I had to ask myself, what is a vampire if not a biter and...

Article: Killer bugs invade.
Wakefield Express (Wakefield, England);  November 12, 2007 ;     337 words ......has been found in Wakefield. The harlequin ladybird poses not only a deadly threat to our own native ladybirds but can also bite humans and there have been reports of some houses being infested with tens of thousands of the prolific breeding insects. Several...

Article: Ladybird invasion at church.
Sussex Express Series (Lewes, England);  January 16, 2008 ;     375 words ......Jevington Church. The harlequin ladybirds are dropping into the church tower through gaps in the beams. Ty have been known to bite humans and eat the common British ladybird. Rosalind Hodge, secretary and archivist, said churchgoers first noticed the bugs in the...

Article: Sustaining the earth. (sustainable agriculture)(Food & Health)
E;  October 1, 1994 ;     700+ words ......orchard flowers lead the assault on the pecan's aphid enemies by enticing an unlikely army of lady beetles, lacewings and assassin bugs, thereby dramatically decreasing the need for spraying. As a side benefit, the flowers pump the soil full of nitrogen, eliminating...

Article: Don't slug that bug! (The Green Thumb Gazette).(Brief Article)
U.S. Kids;  April 1, 2002 ;     142 words ......tree. It was almost dead. Here are some other bug helpers. * Damselflies--Eats aphids, leafhoppers, caterpillars, mosquitos. * Assassin Bugs--Eats flies, Japanese beetles, Colorado potato beetles. * Ladybugs--Eats aphids. * Antlions--Eats ants.

Article: ’
Complete Human Diseases and Conditions;      700+ words ......It is spread to people by blood-sucking insects called reduviid (re-DOO-vi-id) bugs. These bugs, also called kissing or assassin bugs, pick up the parasite when they bite an infected person or animal. The parasites multiply inside the bugs. When the bugs...

Article: trypanosome
The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition;      202 words ......disease , prevalent in South and Central America, which affects the nervous system and heart; it is transmitted by the bite of assassin bugs . Other species, restricted in distribution to Africa and Asia, cause diseases of horses and cattle. Control measures include...

Article: The power of flowers.(The garden)
Countryside & Small Stock Journal;  July 1, 2007 ;     675 words ......ladybugs and lacewings, which feed on aphids. Goldenrod, which I had always considered a weed, attracts soldier bugs and assassin bugs. As their names indicate, these beneficial insects kill off dozens of unwanted garden predators. Furthermore, lavender, sunflowers...

Article: Risk for Rabies Transmission from Encounters with Bats, Colorado, 1977-1996.
Emerging Infectious Diseases;  May 1, 1999 ;     700+ words ......15%) of 4,470 bats tested. The prevalence of rabies in bats that bit humans was 2.1 times higher than in bats that did not bite humans. At least a third of the encounters were preventable. Although no cases of human rabies have been reported since 1931 in Colorado...

Article: The bird tick, Ixodes brunneus Koch (Acari: Ixodidae): a rare and unusual tick in Mississippi.
Journal of the Mississippi Academy of Sciences;  October 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ......sparrows, thrashers, thrushes, towhees, waxwings, and wrens (Bishopp and Trembley 1945, Cooley and Kohls 1945). It does not bite humans. Although this species likely occurs throughout Mississippi, it has been collected only rarely (Goddard and Layton 2006...