CONTENTS NUMBER 1 Review S. W. Pixton and R. W. Howe
1 The suitability of various linear transformations to represent the sigmoid relationship of hum...
CONTENTS NUMBER 1 Review S. W. Pixton and R. W. Howe
1 The suitability of various linear transformations to represent the sigmoid relationship of humidity and moisture content
General Papers
Louis A. Buscarlet
19 Effects of y irradiation on respiration and on food consumption measured through 22Na in Tribolium confusum J. du V. (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae)
B. C. Longstaff and J. M. Desmarchelier
25
The effects of the temperature-toxicity relationships of certain pesticides upon the population growth of Sitophilus oryzae (L.) (Coleoptera: Curculionidae)
T. F. Ghaly and J. W. Sutherland
31
Quality aspects of heated-air drying of soybeans
M. Taher and L. K. Cutkomp
43
Effects of sublethal doses of DDT and three other insecticides on Tribolium confusum J. du V. (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae)
Mary Stubbs and Faizah Abood
51
Oviposition by Sitophilus granarius (L.) (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) in insect contaminated wheat
Announcements
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NUMBER 2 John Pereira
57
The effectiveness of six vegetable oils as protectants cowpeas and bambara groundnuts against infestation Cullosobruchus maculutus (F.) (Coleoptera: Bruchidae)
Richard T. Arbogast, Georges Cbauvin, Rudolph G. Strong and Richard V. Byrd
63
The egg of Endrosis sarcitrella (Lepidoptera: phoridae): fine structure of the chorion
B. C. Longstaff and J. Pocknall
69
A new technique
E. %rkovH, P. H. Verner and J. Novosad
73
Dispersion and distribution grain
R. A. Longstaff and J. J. Finnigan
81
A wind tunnel model study of forced convective transfer from a horizontal grain storage shed
G. G. White
89
A modified inclined sieve for separation wheat
R. A. Plumbley and D. P. Rees
93
An infestation by Araecerus fasciculatus (Degeer) (Coleoptera: Anthribidae) and Decadarchis minuscula (Walsingham) (Lepidoptera: Tineidae) on stored fresh yam tubers in South-East Nigeria
for sampling experimental
of by
Oeco-
grain bulks
of mites and beetles in stored
heat
of insects from
NUMBER 3 Diane McClymont Peace
P. M. Barrer
97
Reproductive success of the mite Acarus siro L. on stored cheddar cheese of different ages
105 A field demonstration of odour-based, host-food finding behaviour in several species of stored grain insects 111
C. W. Coombs and G. E. Woodroffe*
111
The effect of temperature upon the longevity, fecundity and circannual development of Anthrenus sarnicus Mroczkowski (Coleoptera: Dermestidae)
C. H. Bell, P. D. Cox, L. P. Allen, J. Pearson and M. A. Beirne
117
Diapause in twenty populations of Ephestia cautella (Walker) (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae) from different parts of the world
D. E. Evans, G. R. Thorpe and T. Dermott
I?5
The disinfestation bed
J. Q. Rowley
139
A simple method for the separation of Gnatocerus spp. and Triholiutn spp. (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae)
George N. Mbata and Fabian N. C. Osuji
141
Some aspects of the biology of Plodia interpunctefia (Htibner) (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae), a pest of stored groundnuts in Nigeria
NUMBER
of wheat in a continuous-flow
fluidized
4
Effect of high temperatures on larvae of Ephestia elutella (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae) in diapause
C. H. Bell
I53
Anupam Dikshit, N. K. Dubey, N. N. Tripathi and S. N. Dixit
159 Cedrus oil-a
R. A. Hill, J. Lacey and P. J. Reynolds
163 Storage of barley grain in Iron Age type underground
D. E. Evans
173 The influence of relative humidity and thermal acclimation on the survival of adult grain beetles in cooled grain
H. J. Banks, R. A. Longstaff, M. R. Raupach and J. J. Finnigan
1X1 Wind-induced pressure distribution on a large grain storage shed: prediction of wind-driven ventilation rates
D. P. Giga and R. H. Smith
189 Comparative life history studies of four Callosobruchus species infesting cowpeas with special reference to Callosobruchus rhodesianus (Pit) (Coleoptera: Bruchidae)
A. R. Gilby
199 Movement of halogenated
R. J. Hodges
203
promising storage fungitoxicant
fumigants through wheat
Stored products pests and remote moisture sensors
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pits
AUTHOR INDEX Abood F. 51 Allen L. P. 117 Arbogast R. T. 63 Banks H. J. 181 Barrer P. M. 105 Beirne M. A. 117 Bell C. H. 117, 153 Buscarlet L. A. 19 Byrd R. V. 63 Chauvin G. 63 Coombs C. W. 111 cox P. D. 117 Cutkomp L. K. 43 Dermott T. 125 Oesmarchelier J. M. 25 Dikshit A. 159 Dixit S. N. 159 Dubey N. K. 159 Evans D. E. 125, 173
Finnigan
J. J. 81, 181
Ghaley T. F. 31 Giga 0. P. 189 Gilby A. R. 199 Hill R. A. 163 Hodges R. J. 203 Howe R. W. 1 Lacey J. 163 Longstaff B. C. 25, 69 Longstaff R. A. 81, 181 Mbata G. N. 141 McClymont Peace D. 97 Novosad
Pixton S. W. 1 Plumbley R. A. 93 Pocknall J. 69 Raupach M. R. 181 Rees 0. P. 93 Reynolds P. J. 163 Rowley J. Q. 139 Smith R. H. 189 Strong R. G. 63 Stubbs M. 51 Sutherland J. W. 31 Taher M. 43 Thorpe G. R. 125 Tripathi N. N. 159
J. 73 Verner P. H. 73
Osuji F. N. C. 141 Pearson Pereira
J. 117 J. 57
White G. G. 89 Woodroffe G. E. 111 iddrkova' E. 73