Question

Medical entomology is the branch of science which deals with the study of harmful

Answer 1

Medical entomology is a branch of entomology which deals with the study of insects that harm humans or domestic animals and Livestock by transmitting diseases or acting as reservoir hosts.

Answer 2

Medical entomology is the branch of science that deals with the study of harmful insects.

• Entomology is the study of harmful diseases caused by arthropods and insects.
• It also includes the study of these organisms' habitats, ecology and morphology of vectors of this disease.
• Arthropoda such as Diptera, Hemiptera etc parasites, bite and cause allergies in humans.
• For example- the vector of sleeping sickness is caused by the vector tsetse fly and malaria by anopheles.
• These vectors belong to phylum arthropods.