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- Title
Infestation of Wheat Plants by the Larvae of Leptohylemyia coarctata (Fall.) in an Insectary.
- Authors
Jones, Margaret G.
- Abstract
When wheat bulb fly eggs were placed in a row between two rows of wheat plants 18 cm apart in seed boxes in an outdoor insectary, more of the newly hatched larvae invaded plants as the distance to the nearer row diminished; whereas only 61 per cent succeeded when both rows were 9 cm away, 80 per cent did so when the nearer row was 2 cm away and 87 per cent when the eggs were placed between the plants in one row. Some wheat bulb fly eggs hatched as late as mid-April. Only about a quarter of the undamaged larvae dissected out of shoots and replaced in the soil near unattacked plants survived. From 67 to 89 per cent of the eggs failed to become adults. The proportion that failed increased as competition for host plants increased.
- Subjects
WHEAT bulb fly; WHEAT diseases &; pests; PLANT diseases; LARVAE; PLANT bulb diseases &; pests
- Publication
Plant Pathology, 1970, Vol 19, Issue 3, p128
- ISSN
0032-0862
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1365-3059.1970.tb01000.x