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research article

Evaluating fly nuisance source: Flies tagged with radioisotopes used as a field test to establish migratory tendencies of a normal fly population

authors

Arthur H. Smith, University of California, Davis.
Richard M. Bohart, University of Californium, Davis.

publication information

California Agriculture 10(7):11-12. DOI: 10.3733/ca.v010n07p11. July 1956.

author affiliations

Arthur H. Smith is Assistant Professor of Poultry Husbandry, University of California, Davis. Richard M. Bohart is Associate Professor of Entomology, University of Californium, Davis.

abstract

Abstract Not Available – First paragraph follows:

Radioactive tracers were used in a test at Davis—involving four animal barns— to determine the feasibility of identifying a source of a fly nuisance by means of radioisotopes.