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The rearing of the two-spotted spider mite (Tetranychus urticae Koch) on artificial diets.

It has long been considered that the best way to study certain physiological aspects of insects such as their nutrition and response to various host plants would be to develop aseptic synthetic diets. According to Friend (1958) such a diet should satisfy in its physical and chemical characteristics the insects requirements, be in an edible form, and contain the optimum amount of essential nutrients. [...]

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:LACETR/oai:collectionscanada.gc.ca:QMM.43749
Date January 1966
CreatorsEkka, Irma.
ContributorsMorrison, F. (Supervisor)
PublisherMcGill University
Source SetsLibrary and Archives Canada ETDs Repository / Centre d'archives des thèses électroniques de Bibliothèque et Archives Canada
LanguageEnglish
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeElectronic Thesis or Dissertation
Formatapplication/pdf
CoverageMaster of Science (Department of Animal Science)
RightsAll items in eScholarship@McGill are protected by copyright with all rights reserved unless otherwise indicated.
Relationalephsysno: 000592463, proquestno: AAIMK00802, Theses scanned by UMI/ProQuest.

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