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Feeding of Dry Chemically Defined Diets, and Egg Production in the Adult House-fly

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ACCORDING to West1, the adult house-fly, Musca domestica L., must ingest its food in liquid form. Probably because of this fact, and because it is easier to feed large numbers of insects with a single dietary preparation, most investigators have used liquid diets when studying the nutritional requirements of the house-fly and other adult Diptera2–7. A few investigators have presented dry diets and water separately, but simultaneously, to the adult house-fly and promoted egg production8–10.

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  1. Department of Biology, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario

    P. E. MORRISON

  2. Department of Biology, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario

    D. M. DAVIES

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MORRISON, P., DAVIES, D. Feeding of Dry Chemically Defined Diets, and Egg Production in the Adult House-fly. Nature 201, 104–105 (1964). https://doi.org/10.1038/201104a0

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