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Arthropods that attack man and domestic animals in British Columbia (1951 - 2001)

2001; Entomological Society of British Columbia; Volume: 98; Linguagem: Inglês

0071-0733

Peter Belton, Art Borkent, Bob Costello,

Insect and Pesticide Research

In 1951, the Dominion Livestock Insect Laboratory, built in 1938 on 32 acres of Miss ion Flats on the western outsk irts of Kamloops, was the centre for Medical and Veterinary Entomology in the Province (F ig. I). 1.D. Gregson was in charge and ran the very successful tick laboratory that did much to reduce the incidence of paralys is of li vestock, and the occasional human, caused by bites of the range land tick , Dermacentor andersoni. L.c. Curtis was in charge of the Household and Medical Entomology Unit until he retired in 1969. He was heav ily invo lved in testing new post-war insecticides and repellents and many of our Society's photographs show him with a portable sprayer or fogger. G.P. Holland, who had been involved with Gregson in the biology and control of fleas, mosquitoes, warble fli es and ticks, had just left the laboratory in 1948 to head the Systemat ics Unit at the Central Experimental Farlll , Ottawa. He had been responsib le for identi ty ing Illany thousands of fl eas sent in by the Plague (Yers inia pes/is) Survey carri ed out during and after World War 2 .