Results of Cage Experiments with Sterile Male Releases and a Chemosterilant Technique for Control of Cabbage Looper Populations
- 31 January 1966
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Journal of Economic Entomology
- Vol. 59 (1) , 194-196
- https://doi.org/10.1093/jee/59.1.194
Abstract
Studies were conducted in 1962 and 1963 to determine the effects of tepa-sterilized male releases and a tepa self-sterilizing chemosterilant technique on reproduction of populations of cabbage loopers, Trichoplusia ni (Hubner), on cabbage plants in field cages. Increasing sterile male release ratios decreased the number of larval progeny. At the highest ratio of 20 sterile males to 1 untreated male and female each, larval populations were reduced 97% as compared with those in the check. The self-sterilizing technique consisted of a 15-watt blacklight enclosed in a chemosterilant-coated cellulose nitrate cylinder. These units installed in cages with 30 or 60 pairs of untreated moths reduced larval populations an average of 82%.This publication has 1 reference indexed in Scilit:
- A Field Study on the Control of House Flies With Chemosterilant TechniquesJournal of Economic Entomology, 1963