infocus #3 September 2006 Bug's Eye View

Stokes and Ford present three approaches to the microscopical investigation of the bed bug using transmitted light, incident light and secondary electron imaging.

DOI: 10.22443/rms.inf.1.8

Many of the earliest published microscopical works were of arthropod pests. Pulex the flea and Pediculus the louse featured as large engravings in Robert Hooke’s great work Micrographia (1665) and served greatly to increase the general interest shown in the book.

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