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| Publication Type:
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| Author(s): | Tashiro, H.;
Personius, K. E. |
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| Title: | Current Status of the Bluegrass Billbug and Its Control in Western New York Home Lawns |
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| Source: | Journal of Economic Entomology. Vol. 63, No. 1, 1970, p. 23-29. |
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| Publishing Information: | Concord, N. H.: Entomological Society of America |
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| Keywords: | TIC Keywords: Sphenophorus parvulus
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| Geographic Terms: | New York |
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| Abstract/Contents: | As Sphenophorus parvulus Gylh. became a serious pest of lawns in isolated areas of the suburbs of Rochester, New York, in 1967 and 1968, studies were carried out in 1968 on the biology and chemical control of the weevil. It had only one generation a year. Adult feeding caused the grass stems to be ripped and shredded. Overwintered adults were active by mid-May but were not abundant enough to cause damage until the first week in July. In places where 50 adults could be collected from drives, roads and pavements in five minutes, untreated lawns were subsequently completely destroyed. Eggs were deposited in the stems in parts where feeding had occurred and were first found on lawns during the first week in July, although they were probably present in smaller numbers during May. Newly hatched larvae fed within the stems but after a short while migrated into the soil and fed on the roots and crowns of the plants. Larvae were abundant during mid-July and August, and pupae and young adults during the last half of August. During September and early October, the adults began looking for overwintering quarters in turf, in litter round hedgerows, round the bases and houses, and in other protected places. In field tests on chemical control of the Curculionid. In laboratory tests, diazinon was the most effective, giving the highest mortality of larvae and adults infesting treated soil and of adults feeding on treated grass stems. The data indicated that protection of lawns from injury resulted from killing of the adults before the females oviposited. |
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| Language: | English |
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| References: | Unknown |
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| ASA/CSSA/SSSA Citation (Crop Science-Like - may be incomplete):
Tashiro, H., and K. E. Personius. 1970. Current Status of the Bluegrass Billbug and Its Control in Western New York Home Lawns. J. Econ. Entomol. 63(1):p. 23-29. |
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