INFLUENCE OF TEMPERATURE AND HOST VIGOR ON FECUNDITY OF THE PEAR PSYLLA (HOMOPTERA: PSYLLIDAE)
- 1 August 1972
- journal article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in The Canadian Entomologist
- Vol. 104 (8) , 1209-1212
- https://doi.org/10.4039/ent1041209-8
Abstract
Average fecundity of free-living and caged female Psylla pyricola Foerster on pear trees was reduced by high summer temperatures and low host vigor. Implications of these observations in the planning of control programs is discussed.Keywords
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