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Polybutenes in Orchard Pest Control1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 May 2012

R. S. Downing
Affiliation:
Research Station, Research Branch, Canada Department of Agriculture, Summerland, British Columbia

Extract

In British Columbia the control of phytophagous mites, especially the European red mite, Panonychus ulmi (Koch), and the McDaniel spider mite, Tetranychus mcdanieli McG., is becoming increasingly difficult, mainly because of the mites' ability to develop resistance to most acaricides in a relatively short time (3). Because of this, methods of control other than strictly chemical are examined at every opportunity.

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Copyright © Entomological Society of Canada 1962

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