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The spat toxungen is generally harmless on intact mammalian skin (although contact can result in delayed blistering of the area), but can cause permanent blindness if introduced to the eye; if left untreated it may cause chemosis and corneal swelling.
Baygon is a pesticide brand produced by S. C. Johnson & Son.It is an insecticide used for extermination and control of household pests such as crickets, roaches, ants, carpenter ants, spiders, silverfish and mosquitoes.
The symptoms range from a burning itch to a minor rash, from being lethal to simply being a deterrent. With humans, they can cause irritation to the eyes, nose, and skin, and more dangerously, the lungs and airways, if inhaled. In some cases, tarantula hairs have caused permanent damage to human eyes.
Permethrin is a medication and an insecticide. [4] [5] As a medication, it is used to treat scabies and lice. [6]It is applied to the skin as a cream or lotion. [4] As an insecticide, it can be sprayed onto outer clothing or mosquito nets to kill the insects that touch them.
Unlike other insects, fleas do not possess compound eyes but instead only have simple eyespots with a single biconvex lens; some species lack eyes altogether. [2] Their bodies are laterally compressed, permitting easy movement through the hairs or feathers on the host's body. The flea body is covered with hard plates called sclerites. [1]
Millipede eyes consist of several simple flat ... permanently open spiracles and most species lack a waxy cuticle, millipedes are susceptible to water loss and with a ...
Swifts and swallows [89] fly almost continually, catching insects as they go. The honey buzzard attacks bees' nests and eats the larvae. [90] The greater honeyguide interacts with humans by guiding them to the nests of wild bees. The humans break open the nests and take the honey and the bird feeds on the larvae and the wax. [91]
In insects, this corresponds to the entire thorax and the abdomen. Practically the whole body, except for the last pair of legs, is made up of just the segments that are homologous to the head region in arthropods. [22] All adult tardigrades of the same species have the same number of cells (see eutely). Some species have as many as 40,000 ...