Siphunculina Funicola (Eye-Fly)

نویسنده

  • C. Strickland
چکیده

To the Editor, The Indian Medical Gazette Sir,?In your January 1938 number, Mr. MSyddiq has published a short resume of the life his ^ of the eye-fly, S. funicola. It is however necessary mention that Jepson and Pinto (1927), in the Government Agricultural Service, have studied the life history, and bred the flies artiftci ^ on a variety of dead organic matter: they lived ^ much as six weeks in captivity, and did not breea ^ growing plants, as is usual in the Oscinidcv, to family they belong. , pXe Later on, D. N. Roy (1928) found that they breeding naturally in cattle sheds, where the earth .g sodden with excreta, and Syddiq has restated jg matter thus, ' the breeding place jxir axcellcn0 moist mud, particularly that contaminated by dec ,j, position of organic matter. The damp soiled e around improperly kept pail latrines is a faj ?Vept breeding place; breeding has been found in badiy-^j, cattle stables and more frequently in connection badly-kept and contaminated surface drains As the natural source of the pest is an imp01 ^ matter in some districts, particularly in the ^ gardens, it will be seen that Dr. Roy should be g prior credit for his observations. _,c of It is scarcely necessary to advise on any coui^ action.

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دوره 73  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 1938