DORMANT SEASON APPLICATION OF STEINERNEMA-CARPOCAPSAE (RHABDITIDA, STEINERNEMATIDAE) AND HETERORHABDITIS SP (RHABDITIDA, HETERORHABDITIDAE)ON ALMOND FOR CONTROL OF OVERWINTERING AMYELOIS-TRANSITELLA AND ANARSIA-LINEATELLA (LEPIDOPTERA, GELECHIIDAE)

Authors
AGUDELOSILVA F ZALOM FG HOM A HENDRICKS L
Citation
F. Agudelosilva et al., DORMANT SEASON APPLICATION OF STEINERNEMA-CARPOCAPSAE (RHABDITIDA, STEINERNEMATIDAE) AND HETERORHABDITIS SP (RHABDITIDA, HETERORHABDITIDAE)ON ALMOND FOR CONTROL OF OVERWINTERING AMYELOIS-TRANSITELLA AND ANARSIA-LINEATELLA (LEPIDOPTERA, GELECHIIDAE), The Florida entomologist, 78(3), 1995, pp. 516-523
Citations number
24
Categorie Soggetti
Entomology
Journal title
The Florida entomologist → ACNP
ISSN journal
00154040
Volume
78
Issue
3
Year of publication
1995
Pages
516 - 523
Database
ISI
SICI code
0015-4040(1995)78:3<516:DSAOS(>2.0.ZU;2-J
Abstract
Overwintering larval populations of Amyelois transitella in mummy almo nds and Anarsia lineatella in hibernaculae on almond trees in Californ ia orchards were reduced by infectives of Steinernema carpocapsae stra in All and a cold tolerant Heterorhabditis species (HL81) applied in t he dormant season. The effect of this reduction in terms of preventing economic damage the following year is not known. Although the populat ion reduction mas statistically significant, it is unlikely the increa se in mortality achieved would prove to be an economically viable alte rnative to current practices.