• Main Author: C. R. Twinn
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Subjects: Arctic; Subarctic
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.554.5471; http://pubs.aina.ucalgary.ca/arctic/Arctic3-1-14.pdf

I N many areas in the Canadian arctic and subarctic, biting flies, especially mosquitoes (Plate 1) and black flies, are serious pests and interfere greatly with human comfort and activity during the short summer season. During the past three years, at the request of the Defence Research Board and in cooperation with that organization and other agencies, the Division of Entomology has been involved in an investigation of the biting fly problem in the North, with the object of obtaining more knowledge of the distribution and biology of the species concerned, and of developing practical measures of control and protection. In this brief presentation it is not possible to deal adequately with the various projects undertaken, and some are not even mentioned, but it may serve to give some idea of the nature and scope of the investigations. The results of the work have been, or are being, presented in more detail in progress reports and in articles published or to be published in scientific journals. The biological and control aspects of these investigations were com-