COLD TOLERANCE OF THE SOUTHERN GREEN STINK BUG (HETEROPTERA, PENTATOMIDAE)

Authors
ELSEY KD
Citation
Kd. Elsey, COLD TOLERANCE OF THE SOUTHERN GREEN STINK BUG (HETEROPTERA, PENTATOMIDAE), Environmental entomology, 22(3), 1993, pp. 567-570
Citations number
14
Categorie Soggetti
Agriculture,Entomology
Journal title
Environmental entomology → ACNP
ISSN journal
0046225X
Volume
22
Issue
3
Year of publication
1993
Pages
567 - 570
Database
ISI
SICI code
0046-225X(1993)22:3<567:CTOTSG>2.0.ZU;2-L
Abstract
Diapausing and nondiapausing adults of the southern green stink bug, N ezara viridula (L.), had supercooling points in the range from - 10.4 to - 11.7-degrees-C. Lethal exposure times of adult stink bug are give n for - 5.0, - 7.5, and - 10.0-degrees-C. No difference in cold tolera nce was found between diapausing and nondiapausing stink bugs. Overwin tering survival of confined adults at Charleston, SC, was high or 0 de pending on severity of low temperatures.