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Effect of Continuous Rearing in Rescue Wheat on Survival of the Wheat Stem Sawfly, Cephus cinctus Nort. (Hymenoptera: Cephidae)1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 May 2012

N. D. Holmes  and
L. K. Peterson
N. D. Holmes
Affiliation:
Field Crop Insect Section, Science Service Laboratory Lethbridge, Alberta
L. K. Peterson
Affiliation:
Field Crop Insect Section, Science Service Laboratory Lethbridge, Alberta
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Rescue wheat has been grown in the prairie regions of Canada and the United States since 1946 as a control for the wheat stem sawfly, Cephus cinctus Nort. Although there is no evidence of the existence of a strain of sawflies to which Rescue is not resistant, the possibility of the development of such a strain is an important consideration. Callenbach (1952) found no differences in the percentages of Rescue sterns cut by the progenies of sawflies reared the previous year in Rescue and in susceptible varieties of wheat.

The present work was done to determine whether a strain that would survive readily in Rescue wheat could be segregated by rearing sawflies continuously in this variety.

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The Canadian Entomologist , Volume 89 , Issue 8 , August 1957 , pp. 363 - 364
Copyright
Copyright © Entomological Society of Canada 1957

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