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She examined the factors contributing to wing polymorphism, the presence of wingless, short-winged and long-winged forms in relation to habitats and life-history. She suggested that trees and woody plants are architecturally more complex with leaves being widely separated and making flight more
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in London, took in Nadia, her sister Zena (died 1991,) and two brothers. An early interest in entomology led her and Zena to study at the
Imperial College. After earning her bachelor’s degree, Nadia taught at a school for a number of years.
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In 1946, Nadia began her work on pests at the Slough laboratory and received a Ph.D and Sc.D from
Imperial College. She was known for her exceptional teaching ability and she also conducted research on the
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important. This she suggested would explain the observation that cicadas and other arboreal hemiptera rarely had wingless forms. She was also among the first to use radioactive phosphorus,
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Mound, Laurence Alfred, and Nadia Waloff. "Diversity of insect faunas;(papers of the ninth
Symposium of the Royal Entomological Society held in London, on 22-23 Sep 1977)." (1978).
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of flour moths, the ecology and population dynamics of various insects. Some of her significant research included studies on the dispersal and flight of
Hemiptera including
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Lewis, C. T.; Waloff, N. (1964). "The use of radioactive tracers in the study of dispersion of
Orthotylus virescens (Douglas & Scott) (Miridae, Heteroptera)".
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Waloff retired in 1978, but in 1990, she was still publishing as a member of the
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Richards, Owain
Westmacott, and Nadejda Waloff. "A study of a natural population of Phytodecta olivacea (Forster)(Coleoptera, Chrysomeloidea)."
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Waloff, N. (1983). "Absence of wing polymorphism in the arboreal, phytophagous species of some taxa of temperate
Hemiptera: an hypothesis".
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on 2 September 1909. Her family fled in 1919 and took refuge in
Britain. After her mother died in 1926 and her father moved to Romania, Sir
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Richards, O. W., and Nadia Waloff. "The study of a population of
Ephestia elutella Hübner (Lep., Phycitidae) living on bulk grain."
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Waloff, Nadia, and G B Popov. "Sir Boris Uvarov (1889-1970): The Father of Acridology." Annual Review of Entomology 1990 35:1, 1-26
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Waloff, N. (1979). "Partitioning of resources by grassland leafhoppers (Auchenorrhyncha, Homoptera)".
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Waloff, Nadia. "Studies on the insect fauna on Scotch broom Sarothamnus scoparius (L.) Wimmer."
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Waloff, Nadia, ed. "Diversity of insect faunas." Royal Entomological Society, 1978.
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Waloff, Nadejda. "The mechanisms of humidity reactions of terrestrial isopods."
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Jones, T.; Southwood, R. (2002). "Dr. Nadejda Waloff FRES (Hon) (1909–2001)".
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