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The control of stored-product insects and mites with extreme temperatures

P. Fields

1992.4.1JOURNAL OF STORED PRODUCTS RESEARCH

DOI: 10.1016/0022-474x(92)90018-l

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The proposed behavioral, physiological, and biochemical mechanisms that enable stored-product insects to survive extreme temperatures are reviewed and the use of ice-nucleating active bacteria to increase the supercooling points of insects, thereby making them less cold-hardy is suggested.

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FIELDS, P. The control of stored-product insects and mites with extreme temperatures. JOURNAL OF STORED PRODUCTS RESEARCH, 1992, 28: 89–118.