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The Gizzard Worm And Its Transmission To Chickens In Hawaii, Joseph E. Alicata
The Gizzard Worm And Its Transmission To Chickens In Hawaii, Joseph E. Alicata
Harold W. Manter Laboratory: Library Materials
Gizzard-worms of poultry, Cheiloapirura hamulosa, are nematodes occurring in the gizzards of chickens and turkeys.
Summary and Conclusions
Previous to this report the carriers for the gizzard-worm in Hawaii were unknown. Recent investigations by the writer have shown that the flour beetle, Tenebroides nana, and the sand hopper, Orchestia platensis, collected from poultry farms in the Territory of Hawaii have been found naturally infested with the infective larvae of the poultry gizzard-worm, Cheilospirura hamulosa. Out of 8 laboratory-raised chickens to which there were fed about 2,300 grasshoppers that had been collected in an endemic gizzard-worm area, …