TY - JOUR JF - Acarologia T1 - A new technique for isolation of mites exploiting the difference in density between ethanol and saturated NaCl: qualitative and quantitative studies VL - 28 IS - 3 SP - 251 EP - 254 PY - 1987 SN - 0044-586X SN - 2107-7207 PB - Les Amis d'Acarologia AU - Hart, B.J. AU - Fain, A. UR - https://www1.montpellier.inrae.fr/CBGP/acarologia/article.php?id=2590 DA - 1987-10-30 KW - technique KW - isolating mites AB - Qualitative and quantitative experiments using a new flotation method for isolating mites from Berlese extracts, museum storage jars, house-dust and laboratory cultures are described. The results show the extractive efficiency to be 97- 98 %. The advantages of this technique over other known techniques are dicussed. ER -