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Some Carabidae and Staphylinidae Shown to Feed on a Wireworm, Agriotes sputator (L.), by the Precipitin Test1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 May 2012

C. J. S. Fox  and
C. R. MacLellan
C. J. S. Fox
Affiliation:
Science Service Laboratory, Kentville, N.S.
C. R. MacLellan
Affiliation:
Science Service Laboratory, Kentville, N.S.
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Many fields near the shore of St. Mary's Bay, Digby County, N.S., are severely infested with the wireworm Agriotes sputator (L.). This European species, established in Canada only in scartered areas in Nova Scotia, is a very prolific and destructive insect. Infested fields frequently contain one and a half million larvae per acre and as many as 55 larvae have been found in a six-inch cube of soil. In such areas the vegetation on many acres of potentially excellent grassland has deteriorated to little but hawkweeds, Hieracium spp., plants apparently not attractive to the larvae.

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The Canadian Entomologist , Volume 88 , Issue 5 , May 1956 , pp. 228 - 231
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Copyright © Entomological Society of Canada 1956

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