Venomous Arthropod Handbook
by Terry L. Biery
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About this eBook
- Author
- Biery, Terry L.
- Title
- Venomous arthropod handbook : envenomization symptoms/treatment, identification, biology and control
- Credits
- Produced by Stephen Hutcheson and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- QL: Science: Zoology
- Subject
- Poisonous arthropoda -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.
- Category
- Text
- eBook-No.
- 56710
- Project Gutenberg
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/56710
- Release Date
- March 9, 2018
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.VENOMOUS ARTHROPOD HANDBOOK
- 2.PREFACE
- 3.CONTENTS
- 4.INTRODUCTION
- 5.BITING/PIERCING ARTHROPODS — 1. BLACK WIDOW SPIDER (Latrodectus mactans) — 2. BROWN RECLUSE SPIDER (Loxosceles reclusa) — 3. CENTIPEDES (Class: Chilopoda) — 4. CONENOSE OR KISSING BUGS ( Triatoma spp.) — 5. WHEEL BUG ( Arilus cristatus )
- 6.STINGING ARTHROPODS — 1. ANTS (Order: Hymenoptera; Family: Formicidae) — 2. BEES (Order: Hymenoptera; Family: Apidae) — 3. SCORPIONS (Class: Arachnida; Order: Scorpionida) — 4. VELVET ANTS (Order: Hymenoptera; Family: Mutillidae) — 5. WASPS (Order: Hymenoptera; Family: Vespidae)
- 7.URTICATING/VESICATING ARTHROPODS — 1. BLISTER BEETLES (Order: Coleoptera; Family: Meloidae) — 2. URTICATING CATERPILLARS — a. IO MOTH CATERPILLAR ( Automeris io ) — b. PUSS CATERPILLAR (Megalopyge opercularis) — c. SADDLEBACK CATERPILLAR ( Sibine stimulea )
- 8.BIBLIOGRAPHY — General — Blister Beetles — Centipedes — Hemiptera — Hymenoptera — Scorpions — Spiders — Urticating Caterpillars
- 9.APPENDIX: ARTHROPOD ENVENOMIZATION REACTIONS AND TREATMENT — BLACK WIDOW SPIDER — REACTIONS — TREATMENT — BROWN RECLUSE SPIDER — REACTIONS — TREATMENT — CENTIPEDES — REACTIONS — TREATMENT — TRUE BUGS (KISSING BUGS) — REACTIONS — TREATMENT — ANTS — REACTIONS — TREATMENT — BEES AND WASPS — REACTIONS — TREATMENT — SCORPIONS — REACTIONS — TREATMENT — URTICATING CATERPILLARS — REACTIONS — TREATMENT — CHART 1 ANTIHISTAMINES — Chart 2 Treatment of Anaphylaxis—Shock
- 10.Transcriber’s Notes
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