AN EMPIRICAL OVIPOSITION MODEL OF BOLLWORMS (LEPIDOPTERA, NOCTUIDAE) IN COTTON REPRESENTING STOCHASTICITY DUE TO MIGRATION

Authors
SCHAUB LP STONE ND
Citation
Lp. Schaub et Nd. Stone, AN EMPIRICAL OVIPOSITION MODEL OF BOLLWORMS (LEPIDOPTERA, NOCTUIDAE) IN COTTON REPRESENTING STOCHASTICITY DUE TO MIGRATION, Agricultural systems, 45(1), 1994, pp. 1-18
Citations number
29
Categorie Soggetti
Agriculture
Journal title
Agricultural systems → ACNP
ISSN journal
0308521X
Volume
45
Issue
1
Year of publication
1994
Pages
1 - 18
Database
ISI
SICI code
0308-521X(1994)45:1<1:AEOMOB>2.0.ZU;2-8
Abstract
A model of oviposition is developed to be used as input into a stochas tic simulation model of bollworm population dynamics to describe ovipo sition from immigrating females in individual fields. Three years of s couting data from two Texas counties were used to parameterize a time- dependent function describing the probability of finding a given numbe r of eggs per sample of 25 plants. The negative binomial distribution fits the oviposition observations of each year better than seven other theoretical distributions.