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INSECT pests of cereal products have been found to differ markedly in their tolerance to γ-radiation, but of 17 species examined by Cornwell et al. 1 13 were sterilized at about 6 × 103 rep. Recently, however, Cork2 has suggested that the life-span of the flour beetle Tribolium confusum may be extended by a single dose of 3 × 103 r. A comparable beneficial effect on the flour mite Tyroglyphus farinae (Deg.) was also suggested by the following work.
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Cornwell, P. B., Crook, L. J., and Bull, J. O., Nature, 179, 670 (1957).
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MELVILLE, C. An Apparent Beneficial Effect of Gamma-Radiation on the Flour Mite. Nature 181, 1403–1404 (1958). https://doi.org/10.1038/1811403b0
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