TABULATION OF DISEASES AND INSECT TRANSMISSION 489 



Disease 



Poisoning, food (summer diar- 

 rhoea) 



Poisoning, honey 



Causative organism 



Poisoning, kissing bug 



Poisoning, lepidopterous lar- 

 val. (Browntail rash, oph- 

 thalmia nodosa) 



Poisoning, scorpion 



Poisoning, spider 



Poliomyelitis 



(Infantile paralysis 



Bacillus suipestifer. 



Apis mellifera 



^lelipona spp. 



Trigona bipunctata 

 " amalthea 

 " ruficrus 

 " limao 



Melanolestes picipes. 



Automeris io 



Cnethocampa pityocampa 

 Euproclis chrysorrhoea 

 Hemileuca maia 

 Lagoa crispata 

 Lasiocampa pini 

 Lymantria monacha 

 Macrothylacia rubi 

 Megalopyge opercularis 

 Porthesia similis 

 Porthetria dispar 

 Sibine stimulea. 



Androctonus funestus 

 Buthus afer 



carolinianus 



martensi 



maurus 



occitanus 



quiuQuestriatus 

 Centrurus exlicaude 

 Heterometrus maurus 

 Isometrus europteus 

 Prionurus amoureuni 

 " citrinus 



Chiracanthum nutrix 



Epeira diadema 



Latrodectes geometricus 

 " hasseltii 



" mactans 



Lycosa narbonensis 

 " tarantula 



Phiddipus audax 



Theraphosa javenensis 



Theridium lugubre 



13 — guttatum 



Trochosa singoriensis 



Filterable virus. 



Insect transmitter 



Musca domestica. 



Same as preceding 

 column. 



Method of insect 

 transmissions 



Melanolestes picipes 



Same as preceding 

 column. 



Same as preceding 

 column. 



Same as preceding 

 column. 



Nature of 

 Insect rdle 



Taken up from 

 stools. De- 

 posited on 

 food. 



The honey of 

 these bees is 

 contaminated 

 by poisons 

 derived from 

 their foods, 

 and may of- 

 ten contain 

 disease or- 

 ganisms. 

 Honey pois- 

 oning is often 

 fatal to the 

 natives of 

 Central Amer 



Bite of insect. 



Inflammation 

 of skin and 

 mucous mem- 

 brane caused 

 by spined or 

 barbed hairs 

 containing 

 poison. 



The poison is 

 injected b y 

 sting of poi- 

 sonous spine 

 at tip of tail. 



Mechanical 

 carrier. 



The role of the 

 bee is that of 

 contaminat- 

 ing its honey 

 which b e- 

 comes food 

 of man. 



Direct attack. 



The insect's 

 r8Ie is neu- 

 tral. The in- 

 jury is due to 

 contact o f 

 the body 

 with the 

 hairs or to 

 wind blown 

 hairs at the 

 time of molt- 

 ing. 



Direct attack. 



Musca domestica. 



Cimex lectularius. 



Stomoxys calcitrans. 



The poison is 

 injected b y 

 the mandibles 

 which c o n - 

 tain a poison 

 gland. 



Taken up by fly 

 from mucus 

 discharges. 

 Deposited in 

 feces. 



The virus taken 

 up in blood 

 by the bug. 

 Experimental 

 inoculation 

 of crushed 

 bugs p r o - 

 duced disease 



A few experi- 

 mental trans- 

 missions b y 

 bite. 



Direct attack . 



Mechanical 

 carrier. 



Mechanical 

 carrier. 



Mechanical 

 carrier (?) 



