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Note on Preliminary Field Trials of a Bacterium to Control the Codling Moth

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 May 2012

C. M. Phillips ,
Gordon E. Bucher  and
June M. Stephens
C. M. Phillips
Affiliation:
Division of Entomology, Canada Department of Agriculture, Kentville, Nova Scotia, and Kingston, Ontario
Gordon E. Bucher
Affiliation:
Division of Entomology, Canada Department of Agriculture, Kentville, Nova Scotia, and Kingston, Ontario
June M. Stephens
Affiliation:
Division of Entomology, Canada Department of Agriculture, Kentville, Nova Scotia, and Kingston, Ontario
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A bacterium, Bacillus cereus F. and F., which was isolated from diseased larvae of the codling moth, Carpocapsa pomonella (L.), is pathogenic to the codling moth in laboratory experiments (Stephens, 1952).

A series of trials was set up at Kentville to test the effectiveness of this bacterium against codling moth larvae in the field. B. cereus spores were propagated according to the method of Reed and McKercher (1948) and shipped to the field as spore suspensions.

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The Canadian Entomologist , Volume 85 , Issue 1 , January 1953 , pp. 8
Copyright
Copyright © Entomological Society of Canada 1953

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References

Reed, G. B. and McKercher, D. G.. 1948. Surface growth of bacteria on cellophane. Canadian J. Res., E, 26: 330–332.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Stephens, J. M. 1952. Disease in codling moth produced by several strains of Bacillus cereus. Canadian J. Zool 30: 30–40.CrossRefGoogle Scholar