Arachnids include arthropods such as spiders, scorpions, mites,
and ticks.
Insect- and Arthropod-Related Diseases
– Ticks, mosquitoes, lice, and fleas continue to cause sickness
and death worldwide
Pictorial Keys to Arthropods, Reptiles, Birds, and Mammals of
Public Health Significance – pictorial keys used to
teach animal identification to personnel (sanitarians,
engineers, physicians, veterinarians, etc.) without special
training in taxonomy
Links to information from outside CDC
Arachnology, International Study of Spiders [external link]
(Berlin) – international society devoted to arachnology
Bed Bugs and Their Control [external link]
(New Mexico State University) – document about the common
bed bug
Black Widow [external link]
(The University of Ohio Extension) – fact sheet about the
widow spider species in the United States
Brown Recluse and Other Recluse Spiders [external link]
(University of California Davis) – document on recluse
spiders
Canadian National Collection of Insects, Arachnids, and
Nematodes [external link] (CanaColl
Foundation, Canada) – collection used to
identify and classify organisms and as a database supporting
agricultural research
Entomology-Spiders and Other Arachnids [external link]
(University of California Riverside) – research and
extension service on spiders and other arachnids
Other
Common Household Spiders [external link]
(The University of Ohio Extension) – fact sheet about
spiders in and around the house
Tarantula [external link]
(The University of Ohio Extension) – fact sheet about
tarantulas
Wolf
Spider [external link]
(Virginia Tech Cooperative Extension) – information
about wolf spiders