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Orchard "Offensive" Opens

Date released

23 Jan 1933

Series name

Pathe Super Sound Gazette

Issue no

33/7

NoS ID

090391

Story no

4 / 6

Extras

1 film clip

And massed attack on insect pests by tractors, caterpillars, etc, gives the real war-like touch!

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Garden Pests (1978 Film, Multimedia)

Subject

Biology

Distribution

Film (16mm)

Examples of insect, mollusc and eelworm pests of cultivated plants. Demonstrates the effects of these pests.

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Don’s Do’s and Don’ts No.6: a series of tips on gardening - nd [1983]

DON’S DO’S AND DON’TS NO.6 [Series RADIO VICTORY ARCHIVE] A series of gardening tips, broadcast by Radio Victory, presented by DON JOHNSON. TRACK 1- In - I found our ... Pot plants - how to look after...

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Insect War, The (1970 Video)

Subject

Biology

Distribution

OUT OF DISTRIBUTION (BBC) REFERENCE ONLY (BUFVC), Videocassette. U-matic. b&w. 50 min.

Examines the control of insect pests, the problems of blanket use of insecticides, and the various alternative methods of biological control by insect predators and other means.

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Safety in Storage (1964 Film, Video)

Subject

Technology

Distribution

Film (16mm)

Describes various insect pests and the damage these can cause to stored foodstuffs. Shows the work of the Cooper Technical Bureau in developing and testing insecticides to prevent infestation of stored...

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Mormoniella Courtship (1962 Film)

Director

Pobert Barrass

Subject

Biology

Distribution

Film (16mm)

A study of the characteristic activities of an insect that is a pupal parasite of house flies and other cycloraphous ‘Diptera’.

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Crop Pests (1984 Multimedia)

Subject

Agriculture; Biology

Distribution

Film (16mm)

Provides examples of crop pests that are representative of the main animal groups. 30 slides are devoted to ‘Insecta’. The remaining slides cover ‘Mollusca’, ‘Mammalia’, ‘Aves’,...

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Green Machines / Nitrate in Drinking Water (1994 Video)

Subject

Environmental science

Distribution

Off-air recording licence Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 49 min., 1998 sale: £195.00 (+VAT +p&p)

[See individual programme entries for synopses.]

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Biological Control3 of Insects, The (1960 Video)

Subject

Biology

Distribution

OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 36 min.

Shows pests studied in the laboratory including the cottony cushion scale, the cabbage moth, the cabbage white butterfly, the green vegetable bug, and the vegetable weevil. Outlines the success with which...

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Sexual Selection and Speciation: Behaviour Studies on Hawaiian Picture Wings and Their Potential in a Med Fly Eradication Program (1992 Video)

Producer

David Jackson

Subject

Biology

Distribution

Off-air recording licence Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 40 min., 1998 sale: £85.00 (+VAT +p&p)

Discusses the factors for new species formation, using as the example the Hawaiian ‘Drosophila’, the so-called ‘picture-wings’. Considers the biological control of the Mediterranean fruit fly in...

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