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I AM interested in the question raised in NATURE of October 27, p. 622, as to the efficacy of camphor in preventing moths, and the apparent absence of experimental evidence on the subject. May I suggest that the whole matter of “insecticides” needs investigation. Daily we see upon advertisement hoardings the most alarming pictures, showing the truly devastating effects of popular insecticides on every known and unknown species of the insecta. I have had an opportunity of testing the truth of these statements, and I am profoundly disillusioned.
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DE COSTOBADIE, L. Insecticides. Nature 112, 791–792 (1923). https://doi.org/10.1038/112791d0
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