Chapter 15. Robert L Metcalf. 1975. Pest-management strategies for the control of insects affecting man and domestic animals. Pages 529-564. In: RL Metcalf and WH Luckman. New York, John Wiley and Sons, 587 pages.

Keywords: two categories of arthropod pests: 1) creeping, crawling, buzzing, stinging, and biting forms and 2) vetors of human and animal diseases that cause illness and death, American cockroach Periplaneta Americana, bedbug Cimex lectularius, pubic louse Phthirus pubis, ants, bees, wasps, mosquitoes Anopheles, human body louse Pediculus humanus, plague flea Xenopsylla cheopis, Simulum damnosum, black fly vector of onchocerciasis, house fly Musca domestica vector of trachoma virus and bacterial dysenteries, Triatomid bugs Triatoma infestans, vectors of Amerian trypanosomiasis, vector ecology, vector-disease systems, life tables, larval habitats, Aedes aegypti, Anopheles quadrimaculatus, extrinsic cycle, malaria, Culex tarsalis vector of encephalitides and filariasis, St Louis encephalitis, Japanese encephalitis, Chiikungunga fever, dispersal of vectors from their breeding sites, larval habitats, host vector contact, resting habits of vectors, DDT and typhus control, insecticides, spaying mud huts with DDT for malaria control, naturalistic control, mosquito adulticides, mosquito fish Gambusia, mites and ticks, Rickettsia rickettsia, Rocky Mountain spotted fever, Boophilus, Babesia, Ornithodorus, German cockroach Blattella germanica