(n.) The department of zoology which treats of spiders and other Arachnida.
Example Sentences:
(1) The study, published in the current issue of the Journal of Arachnology, says that the spiders identify female Anopheles mosquitoes through their up-tilted abdomens — a resting posture they adopt after feeding on human blood.
Entomology
Definition:
(n.) That part of zoology which treats of insects.
(n.) A treatise on the science of entomology.
Example Sentences:
(1) An entomological survey was therefore undertaken in September 1973 in 6 areas in the north-west of Nigeria to determine the prevalence of Stegomyia populations in the villages.
(2) What the study shows is that "the spillover for bees is turning into [a] boilover," said University of Illinois entomology professor May Berenbaum, who wasn't part of the study.
(3) The entomology of this parasite is discussed along with the pathologic manifestations of human infestation and a description of the various modes of treatment.
(4) Some arboviruses are highly pathogenic for Men or animals, Arboviruses epidemiological patterns in Madagascar were determined by entomological, serological, and virological surveys.
(5) A one year entomological was carried out the survey in the coastal town of Cotonou to study the urban transmission of malaria.
(6) It follows, from the entomological, parasitological and clinical data, that the transmission is high inside this focus and therefore, it seems necessary to take, all measures in order to eradicate the focus.
(7) Village Jethuli is bound by the river Ganga on the north and separated from neighbouring endemic villages on other three sides by agricultural land, is isolated entomologically (as regards sandflies).
(8) In entomological survey, Anopheles maculatus was collected more than other 10 anopheline species encountered.
(9) The author gives the results of an entomological survey in neo-caledonian archipelago (New Caledonia and Loyalty Islands), november-december 1972.
(10) The entomological method was found statistically more reliable and superior when compared to other prevalent methods.
(11) The CS anti-(NANP)n antibody level and prevalence during a 25-month period paralleled the pattern of seasonal transmission consistent with conventional parasitologic and entomologic measurements.
(12) Method contributes to reliable scientific estimation of postmortem interval on the basis of entomologic studies performed.
(13) There was no apparent reason for this cluster of cases, but geographical, climatic, and entomological studies are being carried out.
(14) Estimates of the entomological inoculation rate (EIR) ranged from 0.00006 to 0.005 in different samples and vectorial capacity (VC) was 0.0005 for the 1990 sample.
(15) This indicates that the introduction of native people into a populated malarious area will increase the percent of gametocyte carriers and may, thereby, increase the entomologic inoculation rate.
(16) In the cattle spaces 478 specimens (7 species) were caught, with use of the light trap--554 specimens (16 species), with the help of entomological net--79 specimens (5 species) as well as from the soil samples by the method of the laboratory rearing 1077 specimens (24 species) were obtained.
(17) The entomological indices confirm perfectly the epidemiological findings in the central region as well as in the marginal zones.
(18) Their impact on the entomological parameters is remarkable with a reduction of more than 98% of ma and the rate of entomological inoculation (REI) in the houses.
(19) An entomological survey conducted at the international airports of the Fiji Islands showed Aedes albopictus breeding in the protective area of Nadi airport.
(20) The baseline clinico-parasitological parameters collected during the initial survey and the entomological observations made during the first year as a part of a longitudinal study undertaken in a brugian endemic rural community are presented in this paper.