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AT present little is known about the dispersal of adult blackflies (Diptera: Simuliidae) after emergence, chiefly because of the difficulties encountered in recovering and identifying labelled specimens in the field. Fredeen et al.1, for example, managed to catch and identify only one tagged adult after treating more than a million larvae with radioactive phosphorus. This failure was attributed in part to inefficient trapping methods, and to the difficulties involved in detecting radioactive flies.
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Fredeen, F. J. H., Spinks, J. W. T., Anderson, J. R., Arnason, A. P., and Rempel, J. G., Canad. J. Zool., 31, 1 (1953).
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BALDWIN, W., ALLEN, J. & SLATER, N. A Practical Field Method for the Recovery of Blackflies labelled with Phosphorus-32. Nature 212, 959–960 (1966). https://doi.org/10.1038/212959a0
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