Search

Search results

Displaying 21 - 30

dengue fever

(Encyclopedia) dengue feverdengue feverdĕngˈgē, –gā [key], acute infectious disease caused by four closely related viruses and transmitted by the bite of the female Aedes mosquito; it is also known…

Mosquito and Tick-Borne Diseases: Lyme Disease

Lyme DiseaseMosquito and Tick-Borne DiseasesIntroductionYellow FeverDengueWest Nile EncephalitisRocky Mountain Spotted FeverLyme Disease In 1977, a group of children in and around Lyme, Connecticut…

Mosquito and Tick-Borne Diseases: Yellow Fever

Yellow FeverMosquito and Tick-Borne DiseasesIntroductionYellow FeverDengueWest Nile EncephalitisRocky Mountain Spotted FeverLyme Disease Yellow fever and dengue are caused by the same types of…

DEET

(Encyclopedia) DEET or N,N-diethyl-meta-toluamide, C12H17ON, nearly odorless, colorless to clear yellow oily liquid that boils at 111℃. DEET was developed by the U.S. Army in 1946 for use as an…

Howard, Leland Ossian

(Encyclopedia) Howard, Leland Ossian, 1857–1950, American entomologist, b. Rockford, Ill., grad. Cornell (B.S., 1877), Ph.D. Georgetown Univ., 1896. Associated with the U.S. Bureau of Entomology from…

nylon

(Encyclopedia) nylon, synthetic thermoplastic material characterized by strength, elasticity, resistance to abrasion and chemicals, low moisture absorbency, and capacity to be permanently set by heat…

crane fly

(Encyclopedia) crane fly, true fly resembling a mosquito, often called daddy longlegs because of its six long, delicate legs. (The harvestman, also called daddy longlegs, belongs to an unrelated…

Finlay, Carlos Juan

(Encyclopedia) Finlay, Carlos JuanFinlay, Carlos Juankärˈlōs hwän fēnlī [key], or Charles John FinlayFinlay, Carlos Juanfĭnˈlē [key], 1833–1915, Cuban physician of Scottish and French descent;…

pupa

(Encyclopedia) pupapupapy&oomacr;ˈpə [key], name for the third stage in the life of an insect that undergoes complete metamorphosis, i.e., develops from the egg through the larva and the pupa…