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InfluentialPoints Our homepage  Why reverse-engineer stats  Statistical critiques  In the field  Our sitemap  Diseases & health Foot & mouth  Schmallenberg  Cattle TB  MMR vaccine  Traditonal fertility  Disease vectors Brown ticks  Hard ticks  Horseflies, clegs  Stable & face-flies  Tsetse & lice  Mossies & midges  Schmallenberg, midges  Aphid genera List of genera  Genus Cinara  Genus Drepanosiphum  Grass & Cereal aphids Dogwood-grass aphid  Apple-grass aphid  English grain aphid  Willow & Sallow aphids Sallow aphid  Poplar & willow aphids  Giant Willow Aphid  Pine, Spruce & Larch aphids Corsican pine aphid  Corsican pine shoot aphid  Large pine aphid  Scots pine aphid  Wax-bordered spruce aphid  Mealy spruce aphid  Green-striped spruce aphid  Brown larch aphid  Speckled larch aphid  Giant & Needle aphids  Maple & Sycamore aphids Sapling sycamore aphid  Scarce maple aphid  Common sycamore aphid  Periphyllus aphids  Aphis species Sallow aphid  Holly aphid  Dark-green nettle aphid  Cinara aphids Genus Cinara  C. braini  C. costata  C. cuneomaculata  C. laricis  C. piceicola  C. pinea  C. pini  C. pruinosa  Lachnus eulachnus & pallipes Giant & Needle aphids  Variegated Beech Aphid  Stinging-nettle aphids Common nettle aphid  Dark-green nettle aphid	Here we look at the identification, biology and control of insects, ticks and mites of medical or veterinary importance. Most of our images were taken in UK or Kenya with a few from other countries in Africa. They are not (as yet) intended to be exhaustive!   The aphids are a much neglected group - at least in terms of information and images available on the web. They have huge importance as crop and forestry pests, and have been used as model populations to study ecological processes.   Invasive species is a term used to describe introduced species that adversely affect the habitats they invade, or indigineous species that colonize a new habitat. The adverse effects of such species include serious impacts on man's activities and on biodiversity.   We have also worked in health and rural development in several parts of Africa. We look at the traditional approach to the problem of childlessness in a Maasai pastoralist community - namely a blessing ceremony.   Culicidae & Ceratopogonidae  (Mosquitoes and Biting Midges) Tabanidae  (Horse flies, Clegs and Deer flies) Muscidae  Stable flies, Face flies and House flies (Glossinidae, Hippoboscidae & Anoplura)  Tsetse flies, Louse flies and Lice Tsetse hosts at Nguruman  Wildlife & domestic hosts Ixodes Ticks  (hard-bodied ticks) identification, ecology Rhipicephalus Ticks  (hard-bodied ticks) identification, ecology   Aphid genera  Anoecia corni  Aphis farinosa  ilicis  urticata  Microlophium carnosum  Rhopalosiphum oxyacanthae  Periphyllus  acericola  aceris  lyropictus  obscurus  testudinaceus  Chaitophorus  populeti  populialbae  tremulae  capreae  Drepanosiphum  acerinum  aceris  platanoidis  Cinara  acutirostris  brauni  cuneomaculata  laricis  piceicola  pinea  pini  Lachnus  roboris  pallipes  Eulachnus agilis  Schizolachnus  pineti  Tuberolachnus salignus    Foot-and-mouth disease virus  Schmallenberg virus    Maasai Blessing Ceremony		We need more volunteers! We have an entirely new sort of course for professional and postgraduate biologists. Our current students describe it as how to "reverse-engineer" statistics. In return for feedback we can provide it free (usual cost is £300). Please e-mail  info@influentialpoints.com for details   About our course Course contents  Unit overviews  Course FAQs  Why it's so different  Course screenshots  Unit 1 free Download  Pay course fees  Critiques MMR & Wakefield  TB & badger culls  Organic farming  Why criticise stats?  Problems with normality  Beyond histograms with R  Simulation for learning

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