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On the Effects of Exposure to raised Temperatures upon the Larvae of certain British Mosquitos

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 July 2009

W. Rees Wright
W. Rees Wright
Affiliation:
Department of Agriculture, University College of North Wales, Bangor.
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While our knowledge of the effects of variation of the physical conditions of the environment upon mosquitos is, in some directions, fairly satisfactory, in the case of the effects of variation of temperature there is lamentably little known. So far as a fairly complete survey of the literature dealing with mosquitos has revealed, there is only one paper specifically dealing with this matter, by Macfie (1920), although incidental observations have been recorded by other workers. This present paper is an outcome of an attempt to fill, to a slight degree, this lacuna in our knowledge. The investigations were carried out while the writer was attached to the Department of Zoology at the University College of North Wales, Bangor, and he has to express his thanks to Dr. C. L. Walton, Adviser in Agricultural Zoology, Department of Agriculture, Bangor, for allowing him to carry out the experiments in the Agricultural Zoology Laboratory.

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Bulletin of Entomological Research , Volume 18 , Issue 1 , September 1927 , pp. 91 - 94
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1927

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