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IN a study of penetration of insecticides through insect cuticle, Webb and Green1 found that benzyl alcohol would greatly reduce the time required to kill sheep keds with diphenylamine, although the toxicity of the alcohol was slight. We have found in the course of two seasons work that benzyl alcohol will greatly increase the toxicity of certain ovicides towards the winter eggs of the fruit tree red spider mite, Metatetranychus ulmi (Koch). A large number of ovicides are ineffective against this egg at economic concentrations, and a means of increasing their efficiency would be of value.
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Webb, J. E., and Green, R. A., J. Exp. Biol., 22, 8 (1945).
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McKINLAY, K., KIRBY, A. Benzyl Alcohol as an Aid to Penetration of Certain Ovicides. Nature 167, 153 (1951). https://doi.org/10.1038/167153a0
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