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CONSIDERABLE attention has been devoted to devising means of determining the age of mosquitoes1 and tsetse flies2 in the course of studies on their ecology and behaviour, particularly in relation to disease transmission. By observing the distribution and quantity of fat-body in the black-fly, Simulium ornatum Mg. (Diptera, Simuliidae), it has now been possible to achieve some degree of age determination in this blood-sucking insect also.
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DAVIES, L. Behaviour of Young and Old Females of the Black-fly, Simulium ornatum Mg.. Nature 176, 979–980 (1955). https://doi.org/10.1038/176979a0
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