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IN his communication on “Town Planning and the Small Sewage Purification Plant”, Dr. Lloyd1 discusses the problem of controlling the numbers of the sewage fly, Anisopus fenestralis, in and around sewage filters close to housing estates. Though Psychoda flies were also present in large numbers in these filters, they apparently caused little nuisance compared with that from the Anisopus flies, which entered the neighbouring dwellings in large numbers.
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Lloyd, Ll., Nature, 151, 475 (1943).
Lloyd, Ll., Graham, J. F., and Reynoldson, T. B., Ann. Appl. Biol., 27, 122 (1940).
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TOMLINSON, T. Biological Control of the Fly Population in Sewage Filters. Nature 152, 52 (1943). https://doi.org/10.1038/152052a0
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