Flooding to Control the Grub Ligyrus subtropicus (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae) in Florida Sugarcane
- 1 February 1984
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Journal of Economic Entomology
- Vol. 77 (1) , 254-257
- https://doi.org/10.1093/jee/77.1.254
Abstract
Flooding experiments were conducted under simulated and actual field conditions to determine flooding mortality of grubs in Florida sugarcane. The sequence of flood tolerance of Ligyrus subtropicus Blatchley was adults > eggs > larvae and pupae. Increased water temperature significantly increased flooding mortality of L. subtropicus grubs. A second grub species, Cyclocephala parallela Casey, was more flood tolerant than L. subtrapicus .This publication has 3 references indexed in Scilit:
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