parasitology lab assessment 3

tick life cycle

infected adult tick → uninfected egg → uninfected larvae → infected fed larvae → infected nymph → infected adult

fleas life cycle

eggs → larvae → pupae → adults → eggs

lice life cycle

adult → nit → first nymph → second nymph → third nymph → adult

mosquito life cycle

eggs → larvae → pupa → adult

what does phelbotomus (sandlfies) transmit?

leishmania

what does anopheles transmit?

malaria

what does simulids transmits?

onchocerciasis and protozoans

what does glossina (tsetse fly) transmit?

african sleeping sickness

Psychodidae

sandflies

culicidae

mosquitoes

simulidae

black flies

tabanidae

horse/deer flies

oestridae

warble flies, bot flies

tachinidae

tachina flies