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ALTHOUGH adults of S. damnosum have been reared from larvæ, rearing from eggs does not appear to have been recorded. Hartley1, however, was successful in rearing S. venustum adults from eggs. In view of the importance of S. damnosum as the main vector of onchocerciasis in Ghana and elsewhere, and the recommendation by the World Health Organization Expert Committee on Onchocerciasis2 that the rearing of Simulium in captivity should be studied, it was felt that attempts should be made, when opportunity occurred, to rear S. damnosum in the laboratory. This communication describes the apparatus and method by which S. damnosum adults have been successfully reared from eggs.
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WRIGHT, F. Rearing of Simulium damnosum Theobald (Diptera, Simuliidae) in the Laboratory. Nature 180, 1059 (1957). https://doi.org/10.1038/1801059a0
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