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• Parasites are smaller in size than the host
• The prothorax bears the forewing.
• Stink glands


  Glands responsible for the characteristic odor of bedbugs
• Lice have segmented body.
• Common louse found cats

  Felicola subrostrata
• The volume of blood that female cat fleas can consume a day is 1mL
• Kissing bugs


  Oval, dorsoventrally flattened bodies, vestigial wings, three-segmented beaks, and a disagreeable odor
• Fleas of this genus

  • Ctenocephalides
  • Have been reported to produce anemia in poultry, dogs, cats, goats, cattle, and sheep
• Cochliomyia


  • Chrysomya
• Lipeurus caponis


  Slender, elongated louse which occurs on the underside of the large wing feathers and move about very little
• Biting midges


  • Blackflies
  • Sandflies
  • Mosquitoes
• Lice is not life threatening
• Lice subjects the host to considerable discomfort and cause plica polonica
• Lice infestation can cause vagabonds disease
• Lice carry a disease organism
• Stomoxys


  Fly can be easily separated from the other flies by the presence of a conspicuous forward projecting, rigid proboscis
• Pediculosis


  Infestation by lice
• Anopheles


  Adult mosquito usually rest with their bodies at an angle to the surface that is with proboscis and abdomen in a straight line
• Aedes aegypti


  Yellow fever mosquito readily recognized by the lyre-shaped silver markings on the lateral edges of the scutum
• The adult Musca autumnalis feeds on tears, saliva, nasal mucus, and blood
• Adult Musca sutumnalis are similar in general appearance to house flies (Musca domestica)
• The eggs of Musca autumnalis are laid on the cow's face along the eyelid margin
• Numbers of Musca autumnalis can be controlled by pilling manure into heaps to increase fermentation
• Elimination of existing infested pets is not a goal of flea control
• Muscina stabulans


  The M1+2 vein curves gently forwards and the R5 cell is open ending at or behind the apex of the wing
• Fleas are host specific
• Fleas undergo holometabolous development
• Adult fleas are blood feeding on warm blooded animal, but larvae are free living on organism debris
• Fleas cause irritation and transmit important diseases to animals and man (bubonic plague)
• Face flies do not have biting mouthparts
• Anoplurans do not have holometabolous development
• Chrysops flies do not have biting mouthparts
• Culicoides spp insects can pass through ordinary mosquito nets
• Phlebotomus spp do not require water or objects near water as a breeding place
• Cockroaches live preferably in warm places and roam about in the dark
• Fleas emerge from the cocoon when stimulated by carbon dioxide and vibrations
• Myiasis


  Invasion of organs and tissues of man or other vertebrate animals with dipterous larvae, which for at least a period feed upon living, necrotic or dead tissues
• Phoresy


  The transport of small parasites by bigger parasites
• Buffalo gnats


  Insects have fringes of scales along the wing veins around the margin and the posterior margins of the wings, on the body and legs
• Coarctate pupa


  A type of pupa in which the skin of the last larval stage is cast off and is bear with the legs and wings bound to the body by molting fluid