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Brown recluses (Family Siciariidae) Loxosceles laeta: South America L. parrami: South Africa L. reclusa (brown recluse): North America east of the Rocky Mountains L. rufescens: Mediterranean, Australia L. rufipes: Australia L. spinulosa (jr. syn is spiniceps) (savanna violin spider): Africa L. speluncarum: South Africa Loxosceles unicolor: California Funnelweb spiders (Family Hexathelidae) Atrax robustus (Sydney funnel web spider): Australia Atrax formidabilis: Australia Hadronyche cerberea: Australia H. infensa: Australia H. modesta: Australia H. versuta: Australia Hobo spider (family Agelenidae) Tegenaria agrestis: Europe, United States (Pacific Northwest, including Europe) Megalomorph spiders (Family Theraphosidae) Harpactirella lightfooti: South Africa Six-eyed sand/crab spiders (Family Siciariidae)
Sicarius spp.: Zimbabwe, southern Africa, Central and South America, and the Galapagos Islands. Wandering spiders (Family Heteropodidae) Palystes natalius: South Africa White-tailed spider (Family Lamponidae) Lampona cylindrata: Australia L. murina: Australia Yellow sac spiders (Family Miturgidae) Cheiracanthium brevicalcaratum: Australia C. fulcatum: South Africa C. inclusum: United States, southwestern Canada C. japonicum: Japan C. mildei: Mediterranean, United States C. mordax: Australia, Central and Southwestern Pacific, and some parts of the United States (including Hawaii) C. punctorium: Europe Other Spiders of Potential Concern Argiope spp. (Family Araneidae, garden spiders): worldwide Phidippus spp. (Family Salticidae, jumping spiders): worldwide Lycosa raptoria (Family Lycosidae, wolf spider): South America SCORPIONS (Specific states are indicated in parentheses where appropriate) Family Buthidae Androctonus amoreuxi: North Africa A. australis (fat-tailed scorpion): Middle East, North Africa
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Field Guide to Venomous and Medical
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Introduction Types of negative inte
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Other Arthropods Centipedes Millipe
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Threats from invertebrates encompas
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―traumatic‖ may be applied, and
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Surveillance of Medically Important
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Black widow spiders and their relat
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There are several commercially avai
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Approximately 12-24 hours following
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Reactions to envenomation by funnel
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Figure 21. Six-eyed sand spider (Si
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Yellow Sac spiders More than 200 sp
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one South American species, Lycosa
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Mesobuthus tamulus, the common red
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The effects of scorpion venom on pe
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motor skills become impaired. Other
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Larval chiggers actively crawl to t
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Scabies mites produce two general t
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Reactions from the bites of these v
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from pale yellow to reddish-brown.
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longer a tick remains attached, the
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Lice in the families Pediclulidae a
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Cockroaches Cockroaches are not med
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Although bites of kissing bugs norm
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the source of bed bugs. Under norma
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norepinephrine that affect the abil
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practical, scented sprays, perfumes
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Bumble bees and carpenter bees- Alt
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are their bodies are commonly disti
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Bullet ants are large (~1 inch or 2
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which resolves within a few days. S
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Certain species (brown-tail moth, t
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Blister beetles (Family Meloidae)-
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should consider the potential healt
Page 69 and 70: feces or urine. The life cycle of b
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Page 73 and 74: Wohlfahrtia magnifica (family Sarco
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Page 77 and 78: Aedes and Ochlerotatus mosquitoes a
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Page 81 and 82: and Phlebotomous in the Old World.
Page 83 and 84: effective on the local scale. These
Page 85 and 86: Filth flies (Families Muscidae, Cal
Page 87 and 88: cosmopolitan distributions, can be
Page 89 and 90: Northern rat flea, Nosopsyllus fasc
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Page 93 and 94: Millipedes Millipedes (Class Diplop
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Page 97 and 98: Figure 230. West coast sea nettle (
Page 99 and 100: Carukia barnesi is a small box jell
Page 101 and 102: Figure 235. The ―false box jellyf
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Page 105 and 106: fishermen, especially those in Denm
Page 107 and 108: exploration of the wounds may be ne
Page 109 and 110: and continues until the leech is en
Page 111 and 112: Symptoms generally include pain, sw
Page 113 and 114: Recovery may take from hours to wee
Page 115 and 116: Swimmer’s itch (schistosome cerca
Page 117 and 118: United States Centers for Disease C
Page 119: L. hystrix: Southern Europe, Northe
Page 123 and 124: Family Scorpionidae Opistophthalmus
Page 125 and 126: Ixodes holocyclus (Australian paral
Page 127 and 128: Hymenoptera (ants, bees, wasps, hor
Page 129 and 130: Megalopyge opercularis (Puss caterp
Page 131 and 132: Lucilia (=Phaenicia) cuprina (sheep
Page 133 and 134: Glossina spp. (tse tse fly): Africa
Page 135 and 136: Family Tedaniidae Tedania ignis (fi
Page 137 and 138: Haementeria depressa: South America
Page 139 and 140: Family Bulimidae Oncomelania spp.:
Page 141 and 142: eschar- a sloughing or crusting whi
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