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before becoming a faculty member, a position he kept for the rest of his life. He was a keen educator, and made numerous TV and radio programs, apart from helping develop the curriculum of
Edmonton schools. He received a Gold Medal from the Entomological Society of Canada in 1973. In a review, he
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and that these were unrepresentative of the mosquitoes. He also worked on flight and its efficiency in insects. Hocking also made studies on insects and their associations with the
African thorn acacias. He founded a newsletter called
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wrote that most of the literature on mosquitoes was on
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The intrinsic range and speed of the flight of insects
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