Abstract
WALTON SMITH has recently1 described apparatus which overcomes several difficulties in rearing marine larvæin flowing water, one special point being the waxing of the bolting silk strainers to retard clogging. I encountered the clogging in rearing Metriocnemus longitarsus, Goet. (Diptera, Chironomidae) larvæ in flowing water, the overflow strainer being rapidly stopped up by the algal food and dejecta.
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NATURE, 136, 345 ; 1935.
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LLOYD, L. Prevention of Clogging of Strainers in Rearing Aquatic Organisms. Nature 136, 646–647 (1935). https://doi.org/10.1038/136646d0
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