Simulating the Longevity of Adult Pink Bollworms12
- 15 March 1980
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Annals of the Entomological Society of America
- Vol. 73 (2) , 158-159
- https://doi.org/10.1093/aesa/73.2.158
Abstract
An algorithm is presented that allows one to estimate the daily survival of a cohort of adult pink bollworms, Pectinophora gossypiella (Saunders), at fluctuating temperatures. First a temperature dependent parameter, L, is calculated either by an iterative procedure using daily percent survival data or by the equations ŷ = −8.6438 + 1.8379X for males or ŷ = −7.9473 + 1.6970X for females, where ŷ is the loge of L and X is the loge of the average daily temperature in °C. Then the value for L is used in the equation S(K + 1) = S(K) − (L × S(K)) × [1.055 − S(K)], where S(K + 1) is the fraction surviving on day K + l, and S(K) is the fraction surviving on day K of the adult life of the cohort.This publication has 2 references indexed in Scilit:
- Longevity of Adult Pink Bollworms1 at Constant and Fluctuating Temperatures2,3Annals of the Entomological Society of America, 1979
- Development Time of Heliothis virescens1 in Relation to Constant Temperature 2 , 3Environmental Entomology, 1976