Carabids Collected in a DDT-sprayed Peach Orchard in Ontario (Coleoptera: Carabidae)

1 April 1963

journal article
Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in The Canadian Entomologist

Vol. 95 (4) , 357-362
https://doi.org/10.4039/ent95357-4

Abstract

At least 25 species of Carabidae were caught in pitfall traps in a DDT-sprayed Ontario peach orchard, the commonest being Pterostichus melanarius (Ill.). Harpalus pennsylvanicus (Dej.), Agonoderus lecontei Chd., Amara (Curtonotus) pennsylvanica Hayw., Anadaptus sanctaecrucis (F.) and Anisodactylus rusticus Say. Fewer P. melanarius were caught in plots where foliar sprays of DDT were used most recently, but a rather large and varied population of carabids persisted in all plots despite the application of DDT for as long as ten years.

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ACCUMULATION OF DDT IN THE SOIL OF AN ONTARIO PEACH ORCHARD
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Some Carabidae and Staphylinidae Shown to Feed on a Wireworm,Agriotes sputator(L.), by the Precipitin Test
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