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DURING the past three years, experiments have been in progress1 to determine whether the wattle bagworm, Kotochalia junodi (Heyl.), could be controlled by artificially increasing the concentration of virus in plantations of black wattle, Acacia mollissima Willd., and whether epizootics could be initiated by introducing the virus. In all cases, a high rate of mortality due to polyhedrosis resulted. It was noted, however, that equal concentrations of virus from different localities did not give the same kill; virus suspensions prepared from material collected in plantations remote from those treated consistently gave a higher mortality than those prepared from bagworms from the area in which they were used (Table 1).
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Ossowski, L. L. J., Ann. App. Biol., 45, 81 (1957).
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OSSOWSKI, L. Occurrence of Strains of the Nuclear Polyhedral Virus of the Wattle Bagworm. Nature 181, 648 (1958). https://doi.org/10.1038/181648a0
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