Invertebrates

All of the species depicted here are capable of transmitting serious human diseases and between them cause the deaths of well over a million people each year. Unlike all the other photos on this website, the photos in this section are of captive subjects photographed under controlled conditions.

The links below will take you to pages containing more photos and information on each species and the disease(s) it transmits:

Tsetse Fly Glossina morsitans & Glossina palpalis Transmits African Sleeping Sickness Anopheline Mosquitoes Anopheles spp. Transmits malaria Yellow Fever Mosquito Aedes aegypti Transmits Dengue Fever, Yellow Fever, West Nile and other arboviruses

Phlebotomine Sand Flies Phlebotomus spp. & Lutzomyia longipalpis Transmits Leishmaniasis Sheep Tick Ixodes ricinus Transmits Lyme Disease (borreliosis) and tick-borne meningoencephalitis