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- Title
FIELD INFESTATION OF ALTERNATIVE HOST PLANTS BY WHEAT BULB FLY.
- Authors
Raw, F.; Stokes, Barbara M.
- Abstract
This article discusses a study about the field infestation caused by wheat bulb fly on alternative host plants. Observations were made in the spring of 1957 on a permanently fallow plot situated in the centre of Bones Close Field at Rothamsted in England. The occurrence of a considerable infestation of wheat bulb fly eggs in the fallow plot is in itself a point of interest and provides a striking example of the attraction of even a relatively small area of fallow to the ovipositing females. There is some experimental evidence to suggest that this is so for other graminaceous species. By comparing the numbers of larvae subsequently found in the test species with those found in the wheat plants, a measure of their susceptibility to attack relative to wheat was obtained.
- Subjects
ENGLAND; WHEAT bulb fly; HOST plants; GRASSES; INSECT larvae; WHEAT
- Publication
Plant Pathology, 1958, Vol 7, Issue 2, p58
- ISSN
0032-0862
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1365-3059.1958.tb00827.x