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IN a recent letter to NATURE1, Holdaway and Mulhearn conclude that (in Australia) “there is a relation between sweat content and susceptibility to weather stain and body strike” by blowflies. It is not clear whether they regard the predisposing factor to be the accumulation of sweat constituents (suint) in the wool (from the reference to yolk colour such would be presumed) or the excessive moisture produced by sweating.
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NATURE, 134, 813, Nov. 24, 1934.
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DAVIES, W., HOBSON, R. Humidity in Relation to Sheep Blowfly Attack. Nature 135, 106–107 (1935). https://doi.org/10.1038/135106a0
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