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A Portable Photoelectric Detector of Flying Insects1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 May 2012

E. Argyle  and
J. Chapman
E. Argyle
Affiliation:
Dominion Radio Astrophysical Observatory, Dept. of Mines and Technical Surveys, Penticton, B.C.
J. Chapman
Affiliation:
Research Branch, Dept. of Agriculture, Forest Biology Laboratory, Victoria, B.C.
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Richards (1955) detected insects in flight while studying changes in the amount of radiant energy from the sun. His report stimulated our consideration of a method specificallv intended to record insect flight activity. We wished, by means of a prtabic and relativelv simple apparatus, to detect and count insects flying throush a given space. The method developed differs somewhat in principle from that of Richards. In his apparatus the effect of an insect was to decrease slightly a large amount of energy continually falling on a photoelectric cell. Our method utilizes light reflected from an insect to a photoelectric cell which otherwise views a black background.

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The Canadian Entomologist , Volume 92 , Issue 10 , October 1960 , pp. 728 - 731
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Copyright © Entomological Society of Canada 1960

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