CARABIDAE (COLEOPTERA) AS PREDATORS OF THE RED-BACKED CUTWORM (LEPIDOPTERA: NOCTUIDAE) IN CENTRAL ALBERTA
- 1 July 1971
- journal article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in The Canadian Entomologist
- Vol. 103 (7) , 1039-1044
- https://doi.org/10.4039/ent1031039-7
Abstract
Twenty-one sympatric species of Carabidae fed on eggs of Euxoa ochrogaster Guenée in laboratory trials. Seven species were demonstrated to have fed in the field on cutworms or pupae of E. ochrogaster and six species fed on cutworms in the laboratory. Carabidae are important as predators of E. ochrogaster but failed to eliminate the prey population in a study area in central Alberta.Keywords
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