A RESEARCH TOOL.—Mr R. Buchanan, a masterate student at Lincoln College, who is seeking to determine the best insecticide to use on the Argentine stem weevil, uses this bicycle-drawn trailer to collect samples of soil The soil is placed in metal containers and these are flooded with water and the weevils, which come to the surface, are drawn off with an aspirator. Dr. R. A. Harrison, reader in agricultural zoology (on the right) looks on.
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Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30739, 1 May 1965, Page 10
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75A RESEARCH TOOL.—Mr R. Buchanan, a masterate student at Lincoln College, who is seeking to determine the best insecticide to use on the Argentine stem weevil, uses this bicycle-drawn trailer to collect samples of soil The soil is placed in metal containers and these are flooded with water and the weevils, which come to the surface, are drawn off with an aspirator. Dr. R. A. Harrison, reader in agricultural zoology (on the right) looks on. Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30739, 1 May 1965, Page 10
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