1. Laboratory maintenance of mosquitoes / Farida Mahmood -- 2. Black fly rearing and use in laboratory bioassays / Elmer W. Gray and Ray Noblet -- 3. Maintenance of ticks in the laboratory / Daniel E. Sonenshine -- 4. Maintenance of the triatomine bugs rhodnius Profilixus and triatoma dimidiata under laboratory conditions / R.V. Durvasula, J. Taneja, K. Cobb and E.M. Dotson -- 5. Laboratory rearing of bed bugs / Mark F. Feldlaufer, Harold J. Harlan and Dini M. Miller -- 6. Laboratory maintenance of phlebotomine sand flies / Farida Mahmood and Michelle G. Colacicco-Mayhugh -- 7. Establishment and maintenance of small scale tsetse colonies / Serap Aksoy -- 8. Rearing aphids to use in virus-vectors studies / Catherine Katsar and Stewart Gray -- 9. Leafhopper and planthopper rearing / Karl Maramorosch -- 10. Maintenance of piesma quadratum (fieb.) / Gerhard Proeseler -- 11. Rearing thrips vectors / D.V.R. Reddy, G. Kurub and V. Muniyappa -- 12. Whiteflies as subjects of laboratory research / David N. Byrne -- 13. Xiphinema index, maintenance and feeding in monoxenic cultures / Urs Wyss -- 14. Xiphinema index, rearing in greenhouse / Ulrike Ipach -- 15. Maintenance of fungal vectors of plant viruses / Chuji Hiruki -- 16. Sterile techniques for rearing and cell culture of leafhopper vectors of plant pathogens / Jun Mitsuhashi -- 17. Psyllid vectors of plant pathogens : collection, rearing and use in laboratory research studies / Barbara Jarausch and Phyllis Weintraub.