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A Toxicological and Histophysiological Study of Certain New Insecticides as “Stomach Poisons” to the Honey Bee Apis mellifera L.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 May 2012

E. H. Salkeld
Affiliation:
Department of Entomology and Department of Apiculture, Ontario Agricultural College

Extract

The Effect of DDT on the Mid-Gut of the Bee

The mid-gut from twelve bees poisoned with the pure para isomer of DDT was studied. Of these, five contained the large bubble of gas described on page 48: their histological appearance was almost identical but it differed in some ways from those which contained no bubble.

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Copyright © Entomological Society of Canada 1951

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