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Notes on the Black Army Cutworm, Actebia fennica (Tausch.) (Lepidoptera: Phalaenidae), a Pest of Low-Bush Blueberry in New Brunswick1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 May 2012

G. W. Wood  and
W. T. A. Neilson
G. W. Wood
Affiliation:
Fruit Insect Section, Entomology Laboratory, Fredericton, New Brunswick
W. T. A. Neilson
Affiliation:
Fruit Insect Section, Entomology Laboratory, Fredericton, New Brunswick
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The black army cutwarm, Actebia fennica (Tausch.), is the most important pest of foliage of the low-bush blueberry in New Brunswick. Although usually of minor importance, it periodically appears in outbreak proportions and destroys the entire crop in heavily infested helds. Such an outbreak occurred in Charlotte County in 1944 and 1945, when the present study was initiated.

The data presented in this paper are based on insectary-reared material, supplemented where possible by field observations. Larvae were reared individually in jelly jars or waxed cardboard cups and fed daily on fresh blueberry foliage. Observations on oviposition were made possible by mating reared moths.

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The Canadian Entomologist , Volume 88 , Issue 3 , March 1956 , pp. 93 - 96
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Copyright © Entomological Society of Canada 1956

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