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A CHAMBER FOR STUDYING THE EFFECT OF RELATIVE HUMIDITY AND SOIL MOISTURE ON INSECT EGGS1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 May 2012

J. F. Doane  and
R. K. Allan
J. F. Doane
Affiliation:
Research Station, Canada Department of Agriculture, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
R. K. Allan
Affiliation:
Research Station, Canada Department of Agriculture, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
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Abstract

Construction and performance of a humidity chamber, designed to provide an optimum relationship between volume and conditioning-solution surface area, are described.

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The Canadian Entomologist , Volume 100 , Issue 4 , April 1968 , pp. 358 - 362
Copyright
Copyright © Entomological Society of Canada 1968

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