A Granulosis Virus Disease of the Western Grape Leaf Skeletonizer and its Transmission
- 1 August 1956
- journal article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in The Canadian Entomologist
- Vol. 88 (8) , 507-515
- https://doi.org/10.4039/ent88507-8
Abstract
Since 1950 the University of California has maintained a program designed to evaluate the effectiveness of certain insect parasites in the control of the western grape leaf skeletonizer, Harrisina brillians B. & McD., in San Diego County, California. During this time, all sustained efforts to produce parasites in quantities for field release have failed because of recurrent outbreaks of a disease of the skeletonizer larvae. The causative agent of this disease was identified by Steinhaus and Hughes (1952) as a granulosis virus.Keywords
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