An Improved Method For Rearing The Angoumois Grain Moth PDF Download

Excerpt from Improved Techniques for Mass Rearing of the Cigarette Beetle and the Tobacco Moth One of the worst problems encountered was an unidentified disease, apparently bacterial, which attacked the larvae of the tobacco moth. Once or twice this disease threatened to wipe out an entire stock of the tobacco moth. The only procedures that seemed of any value in combating it were immediate discarding of infested jars, careful sterilization of all glassware, and reducing the number of tobacco moth larvae in each jar. Crowding in the rearing jars seemed to favor the spread of the disease. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.