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... tion is painfully slow compared with that of Musca or Stomoxys . Survival depends on keeping down wastage far below that of most flies , which , as we have seen in the house - fly , are extravagantly pro- lific . Given settled ...
... tion is painfully slow compared with that of Musca or Stomoxys . Survival depends on keeping down wastage far below that of most flies , which , as we have seen in the house - fly , are extravagantly pro- lific . Given settled ...
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... tion with 150,000 million females we add sterile but potent males in the proportion of , say , five to every one native male . Since a native female has only a one - in - six chance of fertile impregnation , the next generation should ...
... tion with 150,000 million females we add sterile but potent males in the proportion of , say , five to every one native male . Since a native female has only a one - in - six chance of fertile impregnation , the next generation should ...
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... tion of the family . Trans . ent . Soc . Lond . 73 : 505-670 71 . 72 . 73 . ( 1926 ) On marine Chironomidae , with descriptions of a new genus and four new species from Samoa . Proc . zool . Soc . Lond . 1926 : 779–806 ( 1929 ) British ...
... tion of the family . Trans . ent . Soc . Lond . 73 : 505-670 71 . 72 . 73 . ( 1926 ) On marine Chironomidae , with descriptions of a new genus and four new species from Samoa . Proc . zool . Soc . Lond . 1926 : 779–806 ( 1929 ) British ...
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THE PATTERN OF FLIES 3 | 3 |
THE LIFEHISTORY OF FLIES | 12 |
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