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Responses of Pests to Fumigation.VII.—The Relation between Fumigation Techniques, Mortality, and the Amount of Hydrogen Cyanide sorbed by Calandra spp.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 July 2009

H. J. Bhambhani  and
R. E. Blackith
H. J. Bhambhani
Affiliation:
Imperial College Field Station, Sunninghill, Berks.
R. E. Blackith
Affiliation:
Imperial College Field Station, Sunninghill, Berks.
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The relation between fumigation techniques, mortality and sorption of fumigant was investigated by two factorial experiments in which adults of Calandra granaria (L.) and C. oryzae (L.) were exposed to hydrogen cyanide at concentrations of 12, 26 or 44 mg. per litre and pressures of 2, 27, 52 and 76 cm. mercury for 30, 60 or 90 min., or at given concentration-time products (36, 72 or 108 mg. hr. per litre), in each of which the time component was 1, 4 or 12 hr., and pressures of 2, 37 and 76 cm. mercury. The methods of fumigation and estimation of sorption and mortality were those used in earlier investigations and the results are shown in a series of graphs.

For both species, sorption of hydrogen cyanide increased as the total pressure was reduced, about three times as much being sorbed, in the first experiment, at a pressure of 2 cm. as at atmospheric pressure, the increase in sorptive capacity being greater in the case of C. oryzae than in that of C. granaria. In the second experiment, sorption by both species, for a given concentration-time product, was greater at a high concentration applied for a short period (1 hr.) than at a lower concentration applied for a long period (12 hr.); in the former conditions, C. granaria consistently sorbed more fumigant than did C. oryzae, in the latter, the reverse was the case, and in intermediate conditions (4 hr. exposure), the amounts sorbed by the two species did not differ materially. This result was inconsistent with that of the first experiment, in which C. oryzae sorbed more than did C. granaria during short exposures (30.90 min.).

These effects on sorptive capacity of differing conditions of fumigation could account for most of the reported departures from the rule that the biological effects of fumigation can be described by the product of the mean concentration of fumigant applied and the period of exposure. Comparison between mortality and sorption at pressures of 27–76 cm. in the first experiment showed, however, that while these were broadly associated, the increased mortality at higher concentrations was greater than would be expected from the associated increase in sorption, and this discrepancy was significantly larger for C. oryzae than for C. granaria.

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Bulletin of Entomological Research , Volume 49 , Issue 1 , March 1958 , pp. 165 - 175
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1958

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