The study of insects and arachnids that either cause direct injury to humans or live stock or are vectors of diseases or pathogens that cause injury or death.
How Medical Entomology
Principally on the biology, ecology, and systematics of the arthropods and not the diseases or parasites themselves.
Entomology is multidisciplinary because it needs;
Many different fields of biology (i.e., insect biology, insect ecology, insect population genetics, insect systematics,
How Insects and Arachnids are Medically Important
Nuisances: (e.g., House Flies, Cockroaches, Bed bugs)
How Insects and Arachnids are Medically Important:
Insects that cause Myiasis –Development of the larval stage is in living flesh (e.g., Flesh flies Sarcophagidae) or Blow Flies (Calliphoridae)
How Insects and Arachnids are Medically Important:
Vectors – Insects and arachnids that either by simple physical contact or biological transfer during feeding transmit pathogens. There are many species of flies, some hemipterans, lice, and fleas.
How Insects and Arachnids are Medically Important: Insect Nuisances
They come in contact with disease causing bacteria that is incidentally left where humans can encounter it
What can house flies do when humans get in contact with them?
transmit Typhoid Fever; Cholera; Amoebic Dysentry; Tuberculosis; Anthrax; and various parasitic nematodes.
How Insects and Arachnids are Medically Important: Venoms
toxic effects of a venom that is injected as part of a biting defensive response or stinging defensive response or simply a chemical release as a defensive response.
Which insect arachnids produce venoms that are helpful in dermatology to treat some types of warts.
Produced by members of the beetle families Meloidae and Cantharidae