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A Review of Studies of Blood-Sucking Flies in Northern Canada1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 May 2012

C. R. Twinn
C. R. Twinn
Affiliation:
Household and Medical Entomology, Division of Entomology, Ottawa, Canada
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Interest in the Canadian north has increased greatly during recent years because of its importance in national defence, and the actual and potential value of its natural resources. A serious hindrance to northern development is the presence during the short summer season of great numbers of blood-sucking flies that make liie difficult for man and beast. The major pem in the forested subarctic are mosquitoes, black flies, and tabanids (the so-called deer flies and moose flies); beyond the tree-line on the arctic tundra black flies are much less troublesome and tabanids do not occur, but in many regions mosquitoes are a terrible scourge.

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The Canadian Entomologist , Volume 84 , Issue 1 , January 1952 , pp. 22 - 28
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Copyright © Entomological Society of Canada 1952

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