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  1. Insect Plague Latest Menace to US Wheat

    Date released
    12 Jun 1947
    Series name
    British Paramount News
    Issue no
    1699
    NoS ID
    040574
    Story no
    3 / 6
    Extras
    1 commentary sheet, 1 cameraman dope sheet, 1 shot list

    Oregon wheatfields ravaged by crickets whose natural enemies are insufficient to counteract them. Farmers employ new insecticide in their destruction.

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  2. I Saw Japan Mix by Douglas Hardy - Paramount War Correspondent

    Date released
    7 Jan 1946
    Series name
    British Paramount News
    Issue no
    1550
    NoS ID
    039849
    Story no
    3 / 4
    Extras
    1 commentary sheet, 1 cameraman dope sheet, 1 shot list

    First British War Correspondent to enter Nagasaki and Sasebo tells his impressions. Resigned to defeat, Japanese live insect-life amidst devastation.

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  3. Cabbage Root Fly Bites The Dust

    Date released
    1969
    Series name
    Living Tomorrow
    Issue no
    7
    NoS ID
    350757
    Story no
    2 / 4

    COI synopsis: As insects develop immunity - insecticides have to be made more and more powerful threatening all forms of wildlife. Now experiments with a sterilising agent in food successfully used on the...

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  4. Underwater: WASP

    Date released
    1977
    Series name
    Living Tomorrow
    Issue no
    205
    NoS ID
    325876
    Story no
    3 / 4

    COI synopsis: An offshore submersible which can best be described as a cross between a submarine and a diving suit. The Wasp, as it is called, is fully pressurised and has its own life-support system. Its...

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  5. Blackfly Foam

    Date released
    1977
    Series name
    Living Tomorrow
    Issue no
    215
    NoS ID
    325911
    Story no
    2 / 3

    COI synopsis: In the African tropics, men toil on the fertile banks of rivers in the hope of feeding their families. The price they pay is blindness. They are bitten by blackflies - a disease-carrying insect...

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  6. Cabbage Root Fly Bites The Dust

    Date released
    1969
    Series name
    Tomorrow Today
    Issue no
    7
    NoS ID
    350760
    Story no
    2 / 4

    COI synopsis: As insects develop immunity - insecticides have to be made more and more powerful threatening all forms of wildlife. Now experiments with a sterilising agent in food successfully used on the...

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  7. Smaller And Better: Leaf Cutting Ants

    Series name
    Living Tomorrow
    Issue no
    159
    NoS ID
    325675
    Story no
    3 / 4

    COI synopsis: It isn’t always a case of the bigger the better; sometimes it’s an advantage to be small. In this issue we look at the benefits of being smaller rather than larger, of using less instead of...

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  8. Bees

    Date released
    1976
    Series name
    London Line
    Issue no
    533A
    NoS ID
    350616
    Story no
    1 / 1

    COI synopsis: For thousands of years one of the most valuable insects has been the honeybee, farmed throughout the world for its yields of honey and wax. Today, it has an increasingly important role to play...

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  9. Extending Our Control: Monitoring The Mosquitos

    Date released
    1974
    Series name
    Living Tomorrow
    Issue no
    144
    NoS ID
    325601
    Story no
    2 / 4

    COI synopsis: In spite of the complex controls of technology there are still areas where our control is lost - thousands of people die every year from disease, fire, accidents on the road. This issue...

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  10. Trees: Insect Virus

    Date released
    1977
    Series name
    Living Tomorrow
    Issue no
    212
    NoS ID
    325904
    Story no
    3 / 3

    COI synopsis: To satisfy the increasing demand for timber in a world where timber resources are decreasing, scientists in Britain are making a concerted effort to understand more about a little known subject...

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