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Damage to Sweet Clover Seed by the Sweetclover Weevil, Sitona cylindricollis Fahr. (Coleoptera: Curculionidae)1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 May 2012

J. S. Kelleher
Affiliation:
Field Crop Insect Section, Entomology Laboratory, Brandon, Man.

Extract

Numerous reports have been received from growers in Manitoba and Saskatchewan that the sweetclover weevil, Sitona cylindricollis Fahr., greatly reduces sweet clover seed yields by feeding on the seed or by causing it to drop. It is known that weevil populations are often very high in clover fields that are left for seed. To determine the amount of damage that might be caused to seed by the weevil, a number of tests were conducted in 1951 and 1952.

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Copyright
Copyright © Entomological Society of Canada 1954

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References

1 Contribution No. 3157, Entomology Division, Science Service, Department of Agriculture, Ottawa, Canada.