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Aspects of the injuriousness of the maize stalk borer, Busseola fusca (Fuller) (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 July 2009

J. B. J. Van Rensburg ,
J. H. Giliomee  and
M. C. Walters
J. B. J. Van Rensburg
Affiliation:
Summer Grain Centre, Private Bag X1251, Potchefstroom 2520, South Africa
J. H. Giliomee
Affiliation:
Department of Entomology, University of Stellenbosch, Stellenbosch, 7600, South Africa
M. C. Walters
Affiliation:
Winter Rainfall Region, Private Bag, Elsenburg, 7607, South Africa
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Abstract

Through repeated sampling in maize planted on different dates over different seasons in South Africa, it was shown that damage by Busseola fusca (Fuller) to plant parts other than the whorl had an important influence on yield. Damage to plants in the period after tasselling was shown to be important. The number of larvae in the plant was a weak estimator of expected yield losses.

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Bulletin of Entomological Research , Volume 78 , Issue 1 , March 1988 , pp. 101 - 110
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1988

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