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Role of Woodpeckers in Control of the Codling Moth in Nova Scotia1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 May 2012

C. R. MacLellan
C. R. MacLellan
Affiliation:
Crop Insect Section, Science Service Laboratory Kentville, N.S.
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The value of woodpeckers in insect control has been recognized by entomologists for many years. Woodpeckers seek out and destroy many of the hidden insect pests of forest, shade and fruit trees and in the stalks or stems of agricultural crops. In forest trees, these birds have been reported destroying buprestid larvae and prepupae (1, 4, 16), cerambycid larvae and pupae (9, 10), and scolytid beetles (11-15, 18).

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The Canadian Entomologist , Volume 90 , Issue 1 , January 1958 , pp. 18 - 22
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Copyright © Entomological Society of Canada 1958

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