Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of tables
- List of boxes
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- 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
- References
- Index
Contents
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 08 January 2010
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of tables
- List of boxes
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- 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
- References
- Index
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- The Biology of Blood-Sucking in Insects , pp. v - viPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2005