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Subklew1 and Woodworth2 have shown that the cuticle of wireworms, Agriotes spp. and Limonius spp., is freely permeable to water, and the latter author also that it is permeable to arsenite ions. These findings have been corroborated and extended at Rothamsted, to show that when immersed in solutions of sucrose of varying concentration, anæsthetized wireworms (anæsthetized to prevent drinking and excretion) behave as an osmotic system bounded by a semi-permeable membrane.
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Subklew, W., Z. morph. u Oekol. Tiere, 28, 184 (1934).
Woodworth, C. E., J. Agric. Res., 57, 229 (1939).
Schofield, R. K., and Botelho da Costa J. V., J Agric. Sci., 28, 644 (1938).
Davidson, A. L. C., and Schofield, R. K., J. Agric. Sci., 32, 413 (1942)
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EVANS, A. Value of the pF Scale of Soil Moisture for Expressing the Soil Moisture Relations of Wireworms. Nature 152, 21–22 (1943). https://doi.org/10.1038/152021a0
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