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Collection, Extraction, Sterilization and Low-Temperature Storage of Black-Fly Eggs (Diptera: Simuliidae)1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 May 2012

F. J. H. Fredeen
F. J. H. Fredeen
Affiliation:
Entomology Section, Canada Department of Agriculture Research Station, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
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Because black flies are active for only a few months each year in the vicinity of this laboratory, methods for collecting, extracting, sterilizing, and storing eggs were devised to facilitate a year around program of research. These methods were developed partly from existing entomological and limnological techniques.

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The Canadian Entomologist , Volume 91 , Issue 7 , July 1959 , pp. 450 - 453
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Copyright © Entomological Society of Canada 1959

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