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INTRODUCTION AND EVALUATION OF PREDATORS FROM INDIA AND PAKISTAN FOR CONTROL OF THE BALSAM WOOLLY APHID (HOMOPTERA: ADELGIDAE) IN NORTH CAROLINA

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 May 2012

Gene D. Amman  and
Charles F. Speers
Gene D. Amman
Affiliation:
Intermountain Forest and Range Experiment Station, Ogden, Utah and Southeastern Forest Experiment Station, Athens, Georgia
Charles F. Speers
Affiliation:
Intermountain Forest and Range Experiment Station, Ogden, Utah and Southeastern Forest Experiment Station, Athens, Georgia
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Abstract

Between 1961 and 1965, 15 species of predators from India and Pakistan were introduced into North Carolina for use in biological control experiments on the balsam woolly aphid. Recovery studies of these species have been made, but to date there is no evidence that any has become established. Lack of establishment is attributed largely to important differences in climate between the old and new environment and also to poor prey acceptance on the part of predator larvae and ovipositing adults.

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The Canadian Entomologist , Volume 103 , Issue 4 , April 1971 , pp. 528 - 533
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Copyright © Entomological Society of Canada 1971

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