Epidemic Infestations of Wheat by a Dermestid, Trogoderma glabrum (Herbst)1

1 August 1957

journal article
research article
Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Journal of Economic Entomology

Vol. 50 (4) , 382-385
https://doi.org/10.1093/jee/50.4.382

Abstract

During 1954 severe infestations of T. glabrum developed in wheat stored on Commodity Credit Corpora-tion bin sites at Beloit and LaCrosse, Kansas. It is also present in farm-stored wheat. This sp. exhibits a strong tendency to infest upper portions of grain bulk. Standard dosages of common liquid grain fumigants were insufficient to control infestation in surface grain. Of 11 treatments tested during 1956, calcium cyanide, liquid HCN, and methyl bromide exhibited promise of being useful as a means of control.

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