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Publication Type:
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Author(s): | Leslie, Mark |
Author Affiliation: | Free-lance Writer, Monmouth, Maine |
Title: | Natural Predator: Mole cricket-killing wasp migrates to golf courses in Mississippi |
Section: | News report Other records with the "News report" Section
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Source: | Golfweek's SuperNEWS. Vol. 6, No. 22, December 10-24 2004, p. 6. |
Publishing Information: | Orlando, FL: Turnstile Publishing Company |
# of Pages: | 1 |
Keywords: | TIC Keywords: Biological control; Insect predators; Larra bicolor; Scapteriscus; Pest control; Insecticide application; Insect control; Pest profile
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Abstract/Contents: | Profiles the wasp, Larra bicolor Fabricius, stating that "it is a natural predator of three species of Scapteriscus mole crickets that came into [the United States] around 1900, probably aboard cargo ships." States that "the presence of the wasp could provide Southern [United States] Golf Courses with help in controlling the crickets." Describes how Larra helps in controlling mole crickets, stating that it "attacks adult or older nymph crickets during two flight periods per year, one in spring and again in autumn. The was enters the cricket's underground burrow and scares it to the surface where it stings the cricket on its soft underside, temporarily paralyzing it." |
Language: | English |
References: | 0 |
Note: | Pictures, color |
| ASA/CSSA/SSSA Citation (Crop Science-Like - may be incomplete): Leslie, M. 2004. Natural Predator: Mole cricket-killing wasp migrates to golf courses in Mississippi. Golfweek's SuperNEWS. 6(22):p. 6. |
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