Hostname: page-component-586b7cd67f-2plfb Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-11-24T10:58:50.383Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

THE ROLE OF PARASITES IN THE CONTROL OF THE EUROPEAN CORN BORER, OSTRINIA NUBILALIS (LEPIDOPTERA: PYRALIDAE), IN SOUTHWESTERN ONTARIO

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 May 2012

H. B. Wressell
H. B. Wressell
Affiliation:
Research Station, Canada Department of Agriculture, Harrow, Ontario
Get access Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Abstract

Surveys, from 1948 to 1964, showed that parasites were of minor importance in controlling the European corn borer, Ostrinia nubilalis (Hübner), in extreme southwestern Ontario. Of the three species that became established, Lydella grisescens Robineau-Desvoidy was the most widespread and the most important. Eriborus terebrans (Gravenhorst) showed considerable buildup in parts of Essex County after discovery there in 1957, and Sympiesis viridula (Thomson) was found widely dispersed, but low in density, throughout the survey area. There is an indication that parasites might be of greater importance in areas where the second-generation borer is increasing.

Type
Articles
Information
The Canadian Entomologist , Volume 105 , Issue 4 , April 1973 , pp. 553 - 557
Copyright
Copyright © Entomological Society of Canada 1973

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

Baker, W. A., Bradley, W. G., and Clark, C. A.. 1949. Biological control of the European corn borer in the United States. Tech. Bull. U.S. Dep. Agric. 983. 185 pp.Google Scholar
Brindley, T. A. and Dicke, F. F.. 1963. Significant developments in European corn borer research. A. Rev. Ent. 8: 155–176.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Clark, C. A. 1934. The European corn borer and its controlling factors in the Orient. Tech. Bull. U.S. Dep. Agric. 455. 38 pp.Google Scholar
Rolston, L. H., Neiswander, C. R., Arbuthnot, K. D., and York, G. T.. 1958. Parasites of the European corn borer in Ohio. Res. Bull. Ohio agric. Exp. Stn 819.Google Scholar
Thompson, W. R. and Parker, H. L.. 1928. The European corn borer and its controlling factors in Europe. Tech. Bull. U.S. Dep. Agric. 59. 62 pp.Google Scholar
Townes, H. K. 1970. Mem. Am. ent. Inst. 13. p. 189.Google Scholar
Wishart, G. 1943. Important developments in the corn borer parasite situation. A. Rep. ent. Soc. Ont. 73: 26–30.Google Scholar
Wishart, G. and van Steenburgh, W. E.. 1934. A contribution to the technique for propagation of Chelonus annulipes Wesm.; an imported parasite of the European corn borer. Can. Ent. 66: 121–125.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Wressell, H. B. and Wishart, G.. 1959. Note on occurrence of Horogenes punctorius (Roman) (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae), a parasite of the European corn borer, Ostrinia nubilalis (Hbn.) (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae), in southwestern Ontario. Can. Ent. 91: 579–580.CrossRefGoogle Scholar