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DAVIES has demonstrated1 in a wind tunnel that Myzus persicae Sulz. did not take to flight in wind speeds greater than 3.75 m.p.h. His experiments, and field observations by other research workers, have given rise to a generalization that aphids do not take off in wind velocities greater than 5 m.p.h.2.
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HAINE, E. Aphid Take-off in Controlled Wind Speeds. Nature 175, 474–475 (1955). https://doi.org/10.1038/175474a0
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