Some Carabidae and Staphylinidae Shown to Feed on a Wireworm,Agriotes sputator(L.), by the Precipitin Test
- 31 May 1956
- journal article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in The Canadian Entomologist
- Vol. 88 (5) , 228-231
- https://doi.org/10.4039/ent88228-5
Abstract
Many fields near the shore of St. Mary's Bay, Digby County, N.S., are severely infested with the wirewormAgriotes sputator(L.). This European species, established in Canada only in scartered areas in Nova Scotia, is a very prolific and destructive insect. Infested fields frequently contain one and a half million larvae per acre and as many as 55 larvae have been found in a six-inch cube of soil. In such areas the vegetation on many acres of potentially excellent grassland has deteriorated to little but hawkweeds,Hieraciumspp., plants apparently not attractive to the larvae.Keywords
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- Food Relations of the Carabidea and CoccinellidaeIllinois Natural History Survey Bulletin, 1883