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Fruit-piercing Lepidoptera in Nigeria

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 July 2009

F. D. Golding
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Damage to citrus fruits by Noctuid moths is known to occur at Ibadan and Agege (about 14 miles north of Lagos). The majority of the observations recorded in this paper were made on Moor Plantation, Ibadan, during the 1938 and 1939 seasons. Box (1942) describes the crop ripening, in the Gold Coast, between April and August as the Main crop, and that ripening between September and December as the Mid crop; in Nigeria, the bulk of the citrus ripens during the latter period, which is known as the Main crop. In this paper the terms wet season and dry season crops are employed.

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Bulletin of Entomological Research , Volume 36 , Issue 2 , June 1946 , pp. 181 - 184
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1946

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