THE ACTION OF FUMIGANTS ON INSECTS: I. THE UPTAKE OF HYDROGEN CYANIDE BY SITOPHILUS GRANARIUS (L.) DURING FUMIGATION
- 1 August 1961
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Canadian Science Publishing in Canadian Journal of Zoology
- Vol. 39 (4) , 427-436
- https://doi.org/10.1139/z61-047
Abstract
The rate of uptake of gaseous hydrogen cyanide by S. granarius has been measured and shown to increase linearly during exposure, even after a lethal dose has been sorbed. The sorbed fumigant can be divided into a recoverable and an irrecoverable fraction, and some of the recoverable fumigant disappears from surviving insects during the recovery period, but over 80% of it remains in their bodies for at least 4 days. Attempts to relate the disappearance of fumigant with detoxication mechanisms such as are present in mammals were unsucessful.This publication has 7 references indexed in Scilit:
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