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A Method for estimating Populations and counting large Numbers of Aphis fabae Scop

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 July 2009

C. J. Banks
Affiliation:
Entomology Department, Rothamsted Experimental Station.

Extract

A method for estimating population changes of Aphis fabae Scop. on bean plots is described. This involved the classification of bean stems in the field according to five arbitary classes of infestation and the removal to the laboratory of ten samples of each class of infested stem for the estimation of their Aphid numbers. A simple volumetric method for counting large numbers of A. fabae is described and the results obtained from three bean plots are presented.

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Original Articles
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1954

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