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The discipline of medical entomology, or public health entomology, and also veterinary entomology is focused upon insects and arthropods that impact human health. Veterinary entomology is included in this category, because many animal diseases can "jump species" and become a human health threat, for example, bovine encephalitis.
It is a typical component of modern medical care throughout East Asia and in some parts of Southeast Asia (such as Thailand). Insects are very commonly incorporated as part of the herbal medicine component of traditional Chinese medicine, and their medical properties and applications are broadly accepted and agreed upon. Some brief examples follow:
One genus of the tangle web spiders has venom which is known to be medically significant. This genus, the widow spiders of genus Latrodectus , has caused human fatalities. The other genus, Steatoda , the false widow spiders, have bites that can cause pain and erythema but only around 30% of bites lead to systemic symptoms.
The "Spanish fly", Lytta vesicatoria, has been considered to have medicinal, aphrodisiac, and other properties. Human interactions with insects include both a wide variety of uses, whether practical such as for food, textiles, and dyestuffs, or symbolic, as in art, music, and literature, and negative interactions including damage to crops and extensive efforts to control insect pests.
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The second species, named Macrothele nullispine, is brown in color and measures only about one-third of an inch long. It also has hairy legs, dozens of tiny teeth and dwells in similar locations ...
Secondary delusional parasitosis occurs when another psychiatric condition, medical illness or substance (prescription or recreational) use causes the symptoms. In secondary delusional infestation, the delusion is a symptom of another condition rather than the disorder itself. [ 5 ]
A neuron (green and white) in an insect brain (blue) Insect cognition describes the mental capacities and study of those capacities in insects. The field developed from comparative psychology where early studies focused more on animal behavior. [1] Researchers have examined insect cognition in bees, fruit flies, and wasps. [2] [3]