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  1. The Artful Butterfly

    Date released
    1978
    Series name
    This Week In Britain
    Issue no
    1014
    NoS ID
    329255
    Story no
    1 / 1

    COI synopsis: A Butterfly Exhibition at the Commonwealth Institute and the concern expressed for its survival.

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  2. 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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  3. Fungal Insecticide

    Date released
    1977
    Series name
    Living Tomorrow
    Issue no
    206
    NoS ID
    325879
    Story no
    2 / 3

    COI synopsis: Greenfly; their prodigious rate of reproduction - up to ten million tons of insects within three months - make them a threat to agriculture. The insecticides normally used to combat greenfly...

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  4. The Insect War: Mighty Mite

    Date released
    1978
    Series name
    Living Tomorrow
    Issue no
    227
    NoS ID
    325952
    Story no
    2 / 4

    COI synopsis: Man, in his attempts to dominate the planet, has a rival; it means a continuing, unceasing battle for survival. It’s the insect war. To win it we need a continuous supply of new ideas....

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  5. Beauty For The Hedgerows Again

    Date released
    1970
    Series name
    Living Tomorrow
    Issue no
    33
    NoS ID
    350926
    Story no
    4 / 5

    COI synopsis: What used to be a schoolboy’s pastime - collecting butterflies - has ended up by causing near extinction as a butterfly farm has been formed to develop the messenger of a summer’s day.

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  6. Leaf Cutting Ants

    Date released
    1976
    Series name
    This Week In Britain
    Issue no
    906
    NoS ID
    329147
    Story no
    1 / 1

    COI synopsis: Research into new techniques for controlling the numbers of leaf cutting ants.

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  7. Asthma

    Date released
    1971
    Series name
    Living Tomorrow
    Issue no
    87
    NoS ID
    351221
    Story no
    2 / 4

    COI synopsis: He lurks in damp places, he hides under the bed, and he eats human skin. He’s the house dust mite and he causes asthma. Stew him and his own juice provides a vaccine to ease the wheeze.

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  8. Mosquito Killer

    Date released
    1972
    Series name
    Living Tomorrow
    Issue no
    102
    NoS ID
    325454
    Story no
    3 / 3

    COI synopsis: Lipids are man’s way of muting the mosquito pupa’s breathing trumpets. Extracted from an ordinary hen’s egg, the lipids form a thin layer on the surface of the water, denying the pupae...

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  9. 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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  10. 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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