part Section I: Introduction -- chapter 1 Economic Importance of Heteroptera: A General View -- part Secton II: Harmful Bugs -- chapter 2 Possible Causes of Disease Symptoms Resulting from the Feeding of Phytophagous Heteroptera -- chapter 3 Plant Bugs (Miridae) as Plant Pests -- chapter 4 Lace Bugs (Tingidae) -- chapter 5 Palm Bugs (Thaumastocoridae) -- chapter 6 Seed and Chinch Bugs (Lygaeoidea) -- chapter 7 Ash-Gray Leaf Bugs (Piesmatidae) -- chapter 9 Scentless Plant Bugs (Rhopalidae) -- chapter 10 Broad-Headed Bugs (Alydidae) -- chapter 11 Leaf-Footed Bugs (Coreidae) -- chapter 12 Burrower Bugs (Cydnidae) -- chapter 13 Stink Bugs (Pentatomidae) -- chapter 14 Shield Bugs (Scutelleridae) -- chapter 15 Several Small Pentatomoid Families (Cyrtocoridae, Dinidoridae, Eurostylidae, Plataspidae, and Tessaratomidae) -- chapter 16 Flat Bugs (Aradidae) -- chapter 17 Bed Bugs (Cimicidae) -- chapter 18 Triatominae (Reduviidae) -- chapter 19 Adventitious Biters — “Nuisance” Bugs -- part Section III: Useful Bugs -- chapter 20 How Carnivorous Bugs Feed -- chapter 21 Creeping Water Bugs (Naucoridae) -- chapter 22 Giant Water Bugs (Belostomatidae) -- chapter 23 Waterscorpions (Nepidae) -- chapter 24 Small Aquatic Bugs (Nepomorpha) with Slight or Underestimated Economic Importance -- chapter 25 Semiaquatic Bugs (Gerromorpha) -- chapter 26 Minute Pirate Bugs (Anthocoridae) -- chapter 27 Damsel Bugs (Nabidae) -- chapter 28 Predacious Plant Bugs (Miridae) -- chapter 29 Assassin Bugs (Reduviidae excluding Triatominae) -- chapter 30 Economic Importance of Predation by Big-Eyed Bugs (Geocoridae) / chapter 31 Stilt Bugs (Berytidae) / chapter 32 Predaceous Stinkbugs (Pentatomidae: Asopinae)