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DURING the past few years, studies of the movements of soil-burrowing insects have been made using radioactively tagged insects1. Originally, the method involved finding the position of maximum response of a manually operated portable Geiger tube and ratemeter, but later a machine was developed which would record automatically the movement of a radioactively tagged insect such as a wireworm2. The sensing element in this machine was a thyrode tube (Victoreen 1B 85), rotated about a vertical axis at the end of a fixed arm. Translatory movements of the axis of Geiger revolution were recorded on an operating surface by a stylus.
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GREEN, B., SPINKS, J. Lapse-time Motion Picture Studies of Soil-burrowing Insects. Nature 181, 434–435 (1958). https://doi.org/10.1038/181434a0
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