Distribution of the European Corn Borer, Ostrinia nubilalis (Hübner) (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae), as Related to Oviposition Preference of the Spring-Colonizing Generation in Eastern North Carolina

1 February 1984

journal article
research article
Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Environmental Entomology

Vol. 13 (1) , 248-251
https://doi.org/10.1093/ee/13.1.248

Abstract

Ovipositional preferences of the European born borer (ECB) were examined In field and greenhouse studies comparing corn, Irish potatoes, and curly dock. Irish potatoes at the prebloom and flowering stages were preferred to young whorl stage corn (20 leaves) were the most attractive oviposition site, but dock's influence on ECB oviposition is minimal because of its scarcity relative to the two crop hosts.

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