The following points highlight the five major disease producing insects. The insects are: 1. Mosquitoes 2. Flies 3. Fleas 4. Bugs 5. Lice. Disease Producing Insect # 1. Mosquitoes: Several species of Anopheles are vectors of human malaria. The female Anopheles bites a malarial patient and takes in malarial Plasmodium along with human blood. Plasmodium multiplies and undergoes sporogony in [...]
The following points highlight the three main types of metamorphosis in insects. The types are: 1. Ametabolic Metamorphosis 2. Heterometabolic Metamorphosis 3. Holometabolic Metamorphosis. Type # 1. Ametabolic Metamorphosis: In lower insects (Collembola, Thysanura) the young which hatches from an egg is a miniature of the adult and is called a nymph, it differs from the adult in having immature [...]
The below mentioned article provides a paragraph on Phylum Arthropoda. The phylum Arthropoda (Gr., arthros - jointed + podos = foot) is the largest group of the animal kingdom. Phylum Arthropoda surpasses all others both in number of individuals and in the diversity of their ecological distribution. They have undergone an adaptive radiation for aerial, aquatic, terrestrial, and parasitic environments [...]