Laboratory Studies on Sterilization of the Boll Weevil with Apholate1

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Abstract
Male boll weevils, Anthonomus grandis Boheman, can be sterilized with apholate. Treatment methods which resulted in at least partial sterility were: (1) Dipping the male weevil in aqueous apholate solutions, (2) feeding apholate to the weevils, (3) exposure to apholate residues on glass, and (4) topical application. Apholate was quite toxic to boll weevils and effective sterilizing dosages resulted in high mortalities. Furthermore, treated male weevils often regained fertility from 10 to 20 days after treatment. Egg hatch was not a good criterion for estimating sterility since data indicated that apholate treatment produced a type of dominant lethal which was expressed in the newly hatched larvae.

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