Hostname: page-component-cd9895bd7-mkpzs Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-12-25T16:24:10.679Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

Insects in Abnormal Atmospheres

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 May 2012

H. A. U. Monro ,
E. J. Bond  and
T. Dumas
H. A. U. Monro
Affiliation:
Research Institute, London, Ontario
E. J. Bond
Affiliation:
Research Institute, London, Ontario
T. Dumas
Affiliation:
Research Institute, London, Ontario
Get access Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Extract

In research on fumigants it was found that variations in the proportions and amounts of the normal atmospheric gases (oxygen, nitrogen, and carbon dioxide), both during and after exposure to the toxicant, had profound effects on the mortality responses of the insects.

At reduced pressures (vacuum fumigation) the mortality response of the insects is complex (Monro 1959). With certain insects at least four zones of differing susceptibility were found. These are typified by the case of the cadelle, Tenebroides mauritanicus L.

Type
Articles
Information
The Canadian Entomologist , Volume 96 , Issue 1-2 , February 1964 , pp. 135
Copyright
Copyright © Entomological Society of Canada 1964

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

Bond, E. J. 1962. Effect of oxygen on cyanide poisoning in insects. Nature, Lond. 193: 1002.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Bond, E. J. 1963. The action of fumigants on insects. IV. The effects of oxygen on the toxicity of fumigants to insects. Canad. J. biochem. Physiol. 41: 993–1004.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Monro, H. A. U. 1959. The response of Tenebroides mauritanicus and Tenebrio molitor L. to methyl bromide at reduced pressures. J. Sci. Fd Agric. 10: 366–379.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Monro, H. A. U., Dumas, T. and Buckland, C. T.. 1962. The respiration of insects at reduced pressures. I. The expiration of carbon dioxide by Tenebroides mauritanicus (L.). Ent. exp. et appl. 5: 79–87.CrossRefGoogle Scholar