Insectology
昆虫と非昆虫
- Invertebrate
- Arthropod
- Insects including mosquito
- Tick
- Arthropod
- animalia
- arthropoda
- insecta
- arachnida
- arthropoda
- 外骨格 exoskelton
- 骨に比べて外骨格は重量物を支持するのが困難なため,虫類は一定以上の大きさを持てない
- 変温動物 poikilothermic
- 完全変態 complete metamorphosis
- egg (ovo) - larva - pupa - adult
- 不完全変態 incomplete metamorphosis
- egg (ovo) - nymph - adult
Arthropod-borne diseases
Arthropod-borne diseasesは50以上ある
- 半分はmosquito-borne
- 残り半分がtick-borne
Mosquitos
- mosquito species > 3,500
- disease-transmitting mosquito species ≈ 300