Dermatobia, the neotropical warble fly
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| Format: | artículo |
| Publication Date: | 1988 |
| Description: | The neotropical warble fly, Dermatobia hominis (Fig. 1), has plagued neotropical America since preColombian times, and has become an economically important pest causing substantial losses to the meat, milk and leather industries from northern Mexico down to northern Argentina. Its life cycle (Box 1) is astonishingly complex, requiring another insect as a phoretic carrier of its eggs to the skin of its mammal hosts. Here Eugenio Sancho discusses factors that contribute to the current economic and public health importance of this myiasis-causing fly. |
| Country: | Repositorio UNA |
| Institution: | Universidad Nacional de Costa Rica |
| Repositorio: | Repositorio UNA |
| Language: | Inglés |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:null:11056/28024 |
| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/11056/28024 https://doi.org/10.1016/0169-4758(88)90138-X |
| Keyword: | MOSCAS PLAGAS DE INSECTOS FLY INSECT PESTS SALUD PUBLICA PUBLIC HEALTH |