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INSECTICIDE-STIMULATED REPRODUCTION OF MYZUS PERSICAE, THE GREEN PEACH APHID (HOMOPTERA: APHIDIDAE)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 May 2012

P. L. Gordon  and
F. L. McEwen
P. L. Gordon
Affiliation:
Ontario Agricultural College, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, N1G 2W1
F. L. McEwen
Affiliation:
Ontario Agricultural College, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, N1G 2W1
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Many instances of pest populations increasing following the application of pesticides to crops have been reported, with natural enemy destruction by the pesticide often cited as the cause (Putman and Heme 1959). Other explanations include a greater food supply available due to the death of competing pest species (Root and Gowan 1978), and direct stimulation of the enhanced species by sublethal doses of a pesticide, evidenced as increased fecundity (Leigh and Wynholds 1980; Boykin and Campbell 1982; Coombes 1983). In Ontario the use of the insecticide azinphosmethyl has been followed by population increases of the green peach aphid (Myzus persicae (Sulzer)) (Founk and McClanahan 1970; Ritcey et al. 1982). Our study was undertaken to determine the causes.

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The Canadian Entomologist , Volume 116 , Issue 5 , May 1984 , pp. 783 - 784
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Copyright © Entomological Society of Canada 1984

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