Effect of Nosema locustae (Microsporida: Nosematidae) on Food Consumption in the Differential Grasshopper (Orthoptera: Acrididae)
- 1 April 1984
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Journal of Economic Entomology
- Vol. 77 (2) , 500-501
- https://doi.org/10.1093/jee/77.2.500
Abstract
The effect of Nosema locustae on food consumption by healthy versus infected Melanoplus differentialis (Thomas) was determined. Infected females consumed significantly less food than uninfected females, but there was no significant difference in food consumption by infected and uninfected males.This publication has 2 references indexed in Scilit:
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- Nosema whitei: Relationship of body weight gains and food consumption ofTribolium castaneum larvaeZeitschrift Fur Parasitenkunde-Parasitology Research, 1979