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An introduction to the study of different diseases which attack moths and butterflies, using tissue culture and electron microscopy.
Shows a method of establishing continuous cultures of ovarian tissue from the insect ‘Antheraea eucalypti’ (emperor gum moth). Cells from the first invertebrate cell lines available in continuous tissue...
A survey of the many carnivorous forms of insect life. With French commentary.*
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...
The observation of the behaviour of atta ants, whose normal habitat is equatorial America, was made possible for the first time due to experiments conducted in the laboratory. Gives a detailed study of a...
Shows in slow motion the process of spontaneous contraction waves in isolated scollated muscle fibres of the woodland dung beetle. An Encyclopaedia Cinematographica film.
An account of the life cycle of the pine processionary caterpillar plus an illustrated list of predators and parasites which attack eggs, larvae, pupae or adult stages.*
Shows the life history of the beetle ‘Hylotrupes bajulus L.' in shots of various sizes of magnification. The development begins with the copulation of the parent animals and egg-laying, followed by the...
Study of insect adaptation, with reference to the voyage of the ‘Beagle’ in 1831, which took Darwin to Brazil. Produced for the Darwin-Wallace centenary of 1958.
The development of the egg of the fruit fly from laying to the hatching of the larva. Time-lapse photography illustrates the processes of formation of the blastoderm, the ventral germband and the pole- or...
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