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EFFECT OF TEMPERATURE ON TOXICITY OF DDT*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 May 2012

G. G. Dustan
G. G. Dustan
Affiliation:
Dominion Entomological Laboratory, Vineland Station, Ontario.
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Experiments conducted in cabinets in the greenhouse during the winter of 1945 showed that temperature had a marked effect on the toxicity of DDT to larvae of the diamondback moth. Plutella maculipennis (Curt.), and the greenhouse leaf tier, Phlyctaenia rubigalis (Guen.), the mortality decreasing as the temperature increased within the range of the tests. The optimum temperature for maximum kill has not yet been determined because it was not possible to run tests at all desired temperatures with the equipment available.

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The Canadian Entomologist , Volume 79 , Issue 1 , January 1947 , pp. 1 - 4
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Copyright © Entomological Society of Canada 1947

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LITERATURE CITED

Lindquist, A. W., Wilson, H. G., Schroeder, H. O., and Madden, A. H.. 1945. Effect of temperature on knockdown and kill of houseflies exposed to DDT. J. Econ. Ent. 38(2): 261–4.CrossRefGoogle Scholar