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Web URL(s):http://journals.fcla.edu/flaent/article/view/57393/55072
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Author(s):Short, D. E.; Koehler, P. G.
Author Affiliation:Department of Entomology and Nematology, Florida University, Gainesville, FL
Title:A Sampling Technique for Mole Crickets and Other Pests in Turfgrass and Pasture
Source:Florida Entomologist. Vol. 62, No. 3, 1979, p. 282-283.
Publishing Information:Gainesville, Florida: Florida Entomological Society
# of Pages:2
Keywords:TIC Keywords: Insect traps; Sampling; Scapteriscus acletus; Gryllotalpidae; Cynodon dactylon
Abstract/Contents:Infestation of pasture and turf by Scapteriscus acletus Rehn & Hebard and S. vicinus Scud. is sporadic, unpredictable and largely undetectable until tunneling activity is visible, economic damage has been caused and the nymphs are too old to be controlled easily. Preliminary surveying is therefore desirable but has been found to be impracticable by means of pitfall-traps, digging, sound-traps or light-traps for various reasons that are explained. Pyrethrins, although effective for detection of turf insects, are too expensive and insuffieiently easily available to be of practical use. Inexpensive alternatives to pyrethrins were therefore tested in Georgia in August 1978 for their ability to flush Scapteriscus spp. out of Bermudagrass (Cynodon dactylon). Pyrethrins proved the most effective of the products tested, flushing out a mean of 11.46 mole-crickets/0.6 m2 within 30 s after application. Ivory Liquid dishwashing soap was just as rapid in action, although 30% fewer insects were flushed out; the addition of apple-cider vinegar did not improve its effectiveness. Other household cleansers and vinegar alone were less effective, but preliminary tests with other liquid domestic soaps gave results comparable to those of Ivory Liquid. Centipedes and species of Spodoptera, Crambus, Euborellia and Gryllus were flushed out of Cynodon dactylon by pyrethrins or liquid soaps at the same time as iScapteriscus spp. Use of this technique of St. Augustine grass [Stenotaphrum secundatum] was observed to flush out Blissus and Geocoris spp.
Language:English
References:0
See Also:Other items relating to: MOLECR
Note:Reprint appears in Golf Business, 54(4) April 1980, p. 28 with variant title, "Sampling technique for mole crickets"
ASA/CSSA/SSSA Citation (Crop Science-Like - may be incomplete):
Short, D. E., and P. G. Koehler. 1979. A Sampling Technique for Mole Crickets and Other Pests in Turfgrass and Pasture. FLA Entomol. 62(3):p. 282-283.
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