Abstract
This profusely illustrated little book on the mites infesting domestic animals is the thirteenth of the series of pamphlets on economic entomology issued by the British Museum (Natural History). Like its predecessors, it is designed on strictly practical lines, and the subject-matter cannot fail to appeal to a wide circle of interested readers, from the systematic entomologist and experimental pathologist to the breeder and fancier, be it of horses, cattle, pigs, dogs, rabbits, fowls, or bees. A little more than half of the book is devoted to the important family Sarcoptida? and the various species of mange for which members of this family are responsible. Useful hints on the treatment and management of infected stock are supplied, and wherever these parasites have been known to transfer their attentions to human beings, the fact is mentioned. Parasites of this order may prove to play an important part in the transmission of infectious disease, not only from animal to animal but from animal to man; and to the medical or veterinary entomologist searching for a possible transmitting agent of some obscure animal plague, the accurate descriptions and illustrations supplied in this book will be very helpful. An interesting feature is the appendix devoted to the description of “Isle of Wight” disease (Acarine disease of bees) and its causation by the mite Acarapis woodi which inhabits the tracheal tubes of infected bees.
British Museum (Natural History) Economic Series, No. 13. Mites Injurious to Domestic Animals {with an Appendix on the Acarine Disease of Hive Bees).
Stanley
Hirst
By. Pp. 107. (London: British Museum (Natural History), 1922.) 3s
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British Museum (Natural History) Economic Series, No 13 Mites Injurious to Domestic Animals {with an Appendix on the Acarine Disease of Hive Bees). Nature 110, 410 (1922). https://doi.org/10.1038/110410c0
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