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SEX PHEROMONE TRAPS IN POPULATION MONITORING OF ADULTS OF THE BERTHA ARMYWORM, MAMESTRA CONFIGURATA (LEPIDOPTERA: NOCTUIDAE)1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 May 2012

Warren Steck ,
E. W. Underhill ,
M. D. Chisholm ,
C. C. Peters ,
H. G. Philip  and
A. P. Arthur
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Abstract

Traps baited with the sex pheromone of the bertha army worm moth, Mamestra configurata (Walker), were operated at 36 sites across the prairie provinces in 1976 and 1977. They captured ca. 15 times as many bertha moths as did light traps and were considered to constitute a useful method for detection of adults of this species.

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The Canadian Entomologist , Volume 111 , Issue 1 , January 1979 , pp. 91 - 95
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Copyright © Entomological Society of Canada 1979

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