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EFFECT OF INSECTICIDES ON THE PEA APHID, ACYRTHOSIPHON PISUM (HEMIPTERA: APHIDIDAE), AND ASSOCIATED FAUNA ON ALFALFA

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 May 2012

A. M. Harper
A. M. Harper
Affiliation:
Research Station, Agriculture Canada, Lethbridge, Alberta T1J 4B1
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Abstract

Four insecticides effectively controlled the pea aphid, Acyrthosiphon pisum (Harris), but differed in their effects on other pest species and on predators. Two days after treatment, methidathion, dimethoate, and malathion reduced populations of all the pest species, but pirimicarb gave no control of the weevils Hypera postica (Gyllenhal) and Sitona scissifrons Say. Methidathion reduced populations of all predators, dimethoate reduced populations of all predators except Aeolothrips fasciatus (Linnaeus), and malathion reduced populations of all the predators except Nabis alternates Parshley. Pirimicarb reduced only the populations of syrphids. Of the insecticides tested, methidathion was the most disruptive to predators and pirimicarb the least.

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The Canadian Entomologist , Volume 110 , Issue 8 , 01 August 1978 , pp. 891 - 894
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Copyright © Entomological Society of Canada 1978

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