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LONG-TERM EFFECTS OF AERIAL APPLICATIONS OF VIRUS–FENITROTHION COMBINATIONS AGAINST THE SPRUCE BUDWORM, CHORISTONEURA FUMIFERANA (LEPIDOPTERA: TORTRICIDAE)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 May 2012

O. N. Morris
O. N. Morris
Affiliation:
Chemical Control Research Institute, Canadian Forestry Service, Ottawa
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Abstract

Spruce budworm infested stands of white spruce and balsam fir were aerially sprayed with an entomopox virus, a nuclear polyhedrosis virus (NPV), a low dose of fenitrothion, and the two virus–chemical insecticide combinations. Long-term assessment of the efficacy of the treatments showed that NPV + a low dose of fenitrothion suppressed the budworm population density particularly on balsam fir below that causing economic damage for 3 years due mainly to transmission of the virus from one generation to the next and maintenance of natural control agents in the population.

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The Canadian Entomologist , Volume 109 , Issue 1 , January 1977 , pp. 9 - 14
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Copyright © Entomological Society of Canada 1977

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