Download or read book Blood Suckers written by John DiConsiglio and published by Children's Press(CT). This book was released on 2007-03-01 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Medical Files examines the science and technology behind some of the most fascinating medical cases and mysteries, from flesh-eating diseases to deadly mosquito bites, and more.
Download or read book Blood Suckers Deadly Mosquito Bites written by John DiConsiglio and published by Turtleback Books. This book was released on 2007-09-01 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A pesky mosquito lands on your arm and drinks some of your blood. It leaves behind an itchy bump, but if that's all it leaves behind, you should be happy. Every year, mosquitoes infect millions of people with deadly diseases!
Download or read book Deadly Mosquitoes written by Abigail Richter and published by Gareth Stevens Publishing LLLP. This book was released on 2011-08-01 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes how mosquitoes can be the carriers of parasites and viruses which they can spread to both humans and animals, including malaria, yellow fever, dengue fever, and West Nile virus.
Download or read book The Mosquito written by Timothy C. Winegard and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2019-08-06 with total page 639 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: **The instant New York Times bestseller.** *An international bestseller.* Finalist for the Lane Anderson Award Finalist for the RBC Taylor Award “Hugely impressive, a major work.”—NPR A pioneering and groundbreaking work of narrative nonfiction that offers a dramatic new perspective on the history of humankind, showing how through millennia, the mosquito has been the single most powerful force in determining humanity’s fate Why was gin and tonic the cocktail of choice for British colonists in India and Africa? What does Starbucks have to thank for its global domination? What has protected the lives of popes for millennia? Why did Scotland surrender its sovereignty to England? What was George Washington's secret weapon during the American Revolution? The answer to all these questions, and many more, is the mosquito. Across our planet since the dawn of humankind, this nefarious pest, roughly the size and weight of a grape seed, has been at the frontlines of history as the grim reaper, the harvester of human populations, and the ultimate agent of historical change. As the mosquito transformed the landscapes of civilization, humans were unwittingly required to respond to its piercing impact and universal projection of power. The mosquito has determined the fates of empires and nations, razed and crippled economies, and decided the outcome of pivotal wars, killing nearly half of humanity along the way. She (only females bite) has dispatched an estimated 52 billion people from a total of 108 billion throughout our relatively brief existence. As the greatest purveyor of extermination we have ever known, she has played a greater role in shaping our human story than any other living thing with which we share our global village. Imagine for a moment a world without deadly mosquitoes, or any mosquitoes, for that matter? Our history and the world we know, or think we know, would be completely unrecognizable. Driven by surprising insights and fast-paced storytelling, The Mosquito is the extraordinary untold story of the mosquito’s reign through human history and her indelible impact on our modern world order.
Download or read book Backyard Bloodsuckers written by Mike Artell and published by Good Year Books. This book was released on 2008-06 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Interesting information about a variety of insects and other "bugs" is presented in an question and answer format.
Download or read book 100 Most Dangerous Things on the Planet written by Anna Claybourne and published by 100 Most. This book was released on 2019 with total page 57 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learn how to face and survive the most disastrous things that could possibly happen! From terrifying natural disasters to dangerous weather, from getting lost in the wild to fighting off ferocious animal attacks, this is your ultimate survival guide to avalanches, killer bees, and much, much more. Each danger includes a risk rating of how likely you are to encounter it, as well as a percentage of how likely you are to survive.
Download or read book Bloodsucking Creatures written by Ron Knapp and published by Enslow Publishing, LLC. This book was released on 2011-01-01 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When we think of bloodsuckers, we often imagine vampires like Count Dracula in scary movies, but what about the real bloodsuckers that creep, crawl, and fly all over the world? Mosquitoes love to feed on human blood. Vampire bats fly out of their caves for a late night meal. Fleas like to crawl between the hairs of dogs and cats for a bloody snack. Readers will learn all about these bloodthirsty animals in this book, and which ones might be coming for them.
Download or read book Biology of Blood Sucking Insects written by Mike Lehane and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Blood-sucking insects are the vectors of many of the most debilitating parasites of man and his domesticated animals. In addition they are of considerable direct cost to the agricultural industry through losses in milk and meat yields, and through damage to hides and wool, etc. So, not surprisingly, many books of medical and veterinary entomology have been written. Most of these texts are organized taxonomically giving the details of the life-cycles, bionomics, relationship to disease and economic importance of each of the insect groups in turn. I have taken a different approach. This book is topic led and aims to discuss the biological themes which are common in the lives of blood-sucking insects. To do this I have concentrated on those aspects of the biology of these fascinating insects which have been clearly modified in some way to suit the blood-sucking habit. For example, I have discussed feeding and digestion in some detail because feeding on blood presents insects with special problems, but I have not discussed respiration because it is not affected in any particular way by haematophagy. Naturally there is a subjective element in the choice of topics for discussion and the weight given to each. I hope that I have not let my enthusiasm for particular subjects get the better of me on too many occasions and that the subject material achieves an overall balance.
Download or read book Deadly Mosquitoes written by Abigail Richter and published by Gareth Stevens Publishing LLLP. This book was released on 2011-08-01 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most people know mosquitoes are small, annoying bloodsuckers, but many children don’t know that they can also be deadly. One tiny mosquito can transport illnesses from person to person, making them one of the most dangerous insects in the world. This informative book explains how mosquitoes grow, how females find human blood to help lay their eggs, and the types of diseases they carry. Amazing close-up photographs take readers into the miniature world of the mosquito.
Download or read book The Invincible Deadly Mosquitoes written by B.K. Tyagi and published by Scientific Publishers. This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Invincible Deadly Mosquitoes is a book with a difference, written in clear, simple and lucid language, and directed both at professional as well as amateur readership. The book is in fact a tribute to all those great entomologists and doctors, exemplified by a few chosen biographical sketches, who relentlessly worked arduously through all thick and thin to stem out the menace called mosquito. The dangers levied on humans by this tiny creature are too many, from irritating and painful bites to transmitting debilitating and deadly infections like malaria, filariasis, dengue, yellow fever and many types of encephalitides, many of which persistently occur in India. Mosquitoes, and the incapacitating diseases they transmit, have for long been considered to sap off individual's and the country's most vital resource, the blood, and, in the process, lend intellectual impoverishment on its people. The book, organized into fourteen chapters dealing with detailed morphology, taxonomy, feeding behaviour and control aspects, tells it all in the most straight forward manner, added with simple and comprehensible data projections. Mosquito, man's deadliest enemy on earth, in terms of both health and economy, is only getting mightier despite all our efforts to control it in past, and has now advanced to pose an inevitable threat to his successful survival. As biological entity, chronologically older and far too greatly seasoned, mosquito appears to be invincible if only targeted for a complete annihilation. Co-existence of both mosquito and man, without allowing the former to vex the latter, has to be designed by the more wiser one the homo sapiens. This book a unique experiment - thus offers a novel stimulus behind the mosquito saga and should hopefully serve country's medical entomologists a great deal in comprehending the real strengths and weaknesses of his bête noire, the mosquito.
Download or read book Mosquitoes written by Sandra Markle and published by Lerner Publications. This book was released on 2008-01-01 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Look out for these public enemies—mosquitoes—as they are after blood! Mosquito females need a meal of blood before they can lay their eggs. They target humans and animals and zoom in for a feast. But these insects may do more harm than causing itchy welts. Mosquitoes can also pass along a number of serious and deadly diseases to those they bite. Humans have developed a number of ways to get rid of mosquitoes, from spreading chemicals to putting mosquito larvae-eating fish in ponds. Yet mosquitoes are also a food source for many animals. Without these pests, birds, bats, and other animals in the food chain might be affected. In this exciting book, you can learn what makes mosquitoes similar to and different from other insects. Close-up photographs and diagrams reveal extraordinary details about mosquitoes’ bodies, both inside and out. And you can perform activities that help you understand how mosquitoes feed and what you can do to keep them away. Learn more about this exciting member of nature’s fascinating Insect World!
Download or read book Bloodsuckers written by David and Patricia Armentrout and published by Britannica Digital Learning. This book was released on 2020-01-01 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Updated for 2020, Thought-provoking facts and information are provided about organisms that survive by sucking blood.
Download or read book The Deadliest Bugs on Earth written by Erika L. Shores and published by Capstone. This book was released on 2010 with total page 18 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes deadly bugs and what makes them dangerous.
Download or read book West Nile Virus written by Melissa Abramovitz and published by Greenhaven Publishing LLC. This book was released on 2013-01-14 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As new cases of West Nile Virus begin to appear across the United States, this book offers a timely discussion of this potentially devastating disease. Author Melissa Abramovitz outlines the mechanics of virus transmission and how mosquitoes and disease-carrying birds have played a key role in the West Nile Virus epidemic. This book covers basic information about the virus and its possible effects, as well as a discussion of personal and governmental prevention plans. The last chapter focuses on treatments currently in development.
Download or read book Small and Deadly Animals written by Anita Ganeri and published by 'The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc'. This book was released on 2021-07-15 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: They’re tiny—but they’re fierce! Thanks to weapons and defenses such as powerful venom (or just their ability to carry disease), some of Earth’s smallest creatures can be its most deadly. In this detailed guide, readers will learn about how the most miniscule of animals—including the black widow spider, the poison dart frog, the blue-ringed octopus, and more—can be dangerous. Vital statistics features point out details about these fascinating animals, and full-color photographs give them an up-close look at even the tiniest of creatures.
Download or read book Defying Death in the Jungle written by Gary Jeffrey and published by The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc. This book was released on 2010-01-15 with total page 51 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The jungles are loaded with deadly dangers such as water and insect-related diseases, poisonous plants, and savage animals. This books detailed graphic illustrations and fast-paced narrative will wow readers while they learn about some of the most amazing jungle survival stories.
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