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The Deposition of Airborne Droplets on dead House-flies (Musca domestica L.)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 July 2009

R. T. Jarman
R. T. Jarman
Affiliation:
Chesterford Park Research Station, nr. Saffron. Walden, Essex.
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An experimental laboratory study of the deposition of droplets on dead house-flies (Musca domestica L.) was made, using a spinning-top sprayer to produce a spray of uniformly sized oil droplets and a cascade impactor to measure the concentration of the spray of droplets, which were dyed. The deposits obtained on a dead house-fly and a cascade-impactor slide when these were exposed in turn to a wind of 1 m. per sec. in a wind tunnel were compared colorimetrically, and determinations thus made of the collection efficiency of the flies, defined as the volume of liquid deposited on an object expressed as a percentage of the volume that would have passed through the same cross-section as the object had that not been there.

The measured collecting efficiency of a fly varied from about 70 per cent. (droplet dia. 27μ) to about 200 per cent. (droplet dia. 75μ), and was approximately twice that of a sphere with a cross-sectional area twice the projected frontal area of the fly. From theoretical calculations of the filtering effect of different elements of the vegetation, it is concluded that the optimum droplet diameter for deposition on flies in woodland is 20–40μ.

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Bulletin of Entomological Research , Volume 50 , Issue 2 , August 1959 , pp. 327 - 332
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1959

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