Hostname: page-component-78c5997874-xbtfd Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-11-10T12:02:33.561Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

Some fly poisons for outdoor and hospital use

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 July 2009

A. C. Jackson  and
H. M. Lefroy
A. C. Jackson
Affiliation:
Imperial College of Science and Technology, South Kensington.
H. M. Lefroy
Affiliation:
Imperial College of Science and Technology, South Kensington.
Get access Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Extract

The method of poisoning flies by the exposure of solutions of sodium arsenite and sugar is one that has been advocated by entomologists in Italy and in South Africa for some years, and yielded good results in Mesopotamia in 1916; for in hot climates, where flies come readily to sugar solutions, the use of an outdoor poison is specially valuable. But there are obvious disadvantages in using any arsenic solutions; for not only are they poisonous in themselves, but the disposal of residues is not easy, as the arsenic and sugar remain poisonous if thrown away, or if they dry on sand or soil. It would thus be useful to substitute for arsenic some compound less poisonous to man and less stable in a soluble form when thrown away.

Type
Original Articles
Information
Bulletin of Entomological Research , Volume 7 , Issue 4 , June 1917 , pp. 327 - 335
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1917

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)