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... Fifty-nine sweetpotato cultivars, including 16 heirlooms, 11 near-heirlooms (developed in the 1960s and 1970s), 19 cultivars from the 1980s, and 13 modern varieties (since 1990), were evaluated for resistance to soil insects in field experiments during 2010–2011 at the U.S. Department of Agriculture-Agriculture Research Service, U.S. Vegetable Laboratory (USDA-ARS, USVL), Charleston, SC. These exp ...
eclosion; Zea mays; sampling; insecticides; spatial distribution; geostatistics; geographic information systems; precision agriculture; Bacillus thuringiensis; population density; Diabrotica; prediction; Iowa
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... The most common management options for corn rootworms are rotating corn with nonhost crops, planting genetically engineered corn resistant to corn rootworms (e.g., Bacillus thuringiensis [Bt] corn), and treating with a soil insecticide at planting time. Because these control tactics are preventive, the decision to apply controls has been made without any knowledge of rootworm density and spatial d ...
Coleomegilla maculata; predatory insects; beneficial insects; Zea mays; transgenic plants; Bacillus thuringiensis subsp. kumamotoensis; crystal proteins; pest resistance; Diabrotica; tefluthrin; nontarget organisms; developmental stages; population density; South Dakota
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... Lady beetles (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae) are important polyphagous predators in maize, Zea mays L., fields. Transgenic Cry3Bb1 maize hybrids express a coleopteran-specific insecticidal protein derived from Bacillus thuringiensis (Berliner) subsp. kumamotoensis that is targeted at corn rootworm larvae. This study evaluated impacts of Cry3Bb1 protein-expressing maize, tefluthrintreated maize, and un ...
... The dispersion of root injury to Zea mays L. by corn rootworm, Diabrotica spp., larvae was characterized using geostatistics to determine the appropriate sampling distance to obtain independent estimates of root injury. We also investigated the effect of the root injury levels on the spatial dependence of root injury at three different spatial scales: large-scale study with 25-m sampling distance ...
... Corn rootworm larval feeding on corn roots can significantly reduce grain yield by interfering with photosynthetic rates, limiting the uptake of water and nutrients, and by increasing the plant's susceptibility to lodging. Of the techniques developed to measure the efficacy of corn rootworm larval control tactics, root damage ratings have generally been adopted as the standard because sampling roo ...
Zea mays; nontarget organisms; baits; rootworms; cucurbitacins; beneficial arthropods; carbaryl; population density; Diabrotica; semiochemicals; insect control; Iowa; South Dakota
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... Impacts of semiochemical-based insecticidal bait applications on beneficial arthropod groups common to field corn, Zea mays L., habitats were assessed in areawide-managed field sites in South Dakota and Iowa during 1997 and 1998. Slam, a commercial bait formulation comprised of 87% cucurbitacin and 13% carbaryl insecticide, was used for management of adult rootworm, Diabrotica spp., and controls c ...
... In 2001, a self-administered questionnaire was sent to 1000 corn, Zea mays L., farmers in each of five states (Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Minnesota, and Nebraska) to evaluate their perceptions of transgenic corn designed to control the European corn borer, Ostrinia nubilalis (Hubner), and corn rootworms, Diabrotica spp. Respondents returned 1,313 surveys (26.2%). Farmers with small acreages planted ...
... Aerially applied adherent corn flour granules containing 1% malathion were more often as, or more, effective than 15% chlorpyrifos (Lorsban 15G) granules in controlling caterpillars and sap beetles in high amylose corn in 1997 than 1996. Use of malathion granules corresponding closely in size to chlorpyrifos granules in the second year of the study apparently increased relative efficacy. Significa ...
... A 4-yr field investigation (1993-1996) to examine the compensatory root regrowth of 12 commonly grown maize hybrids after larval injury by corn rootworms, Diabrotica spp., was conducted at 2 locations in Illinois. Root injury ratings, root volume measurements taken in July and August, and root regrowth parameters were evaluated for their usefulness in predicting yield. Root ratings were as useful ...
... Bacillus thuringiensis strain EG4961 was isolated from grain dust. This strain produces a parasporal inclusion body composed of a unique 74.4-kdal insecticidal crystal protein. This protein is toxic to larvae and adults of several Coleopteran species including Colorado potato beetle, Leptinotarsa decemlineata (Say), and southern corn rootworm, Diabrotica undecimpunctata howardi Barber, a species t ...
... In 1990 and 1991, the efficacy of reduced application rates of soil insecticides registered for corn rootworms, Diabrotica spp., and the prevalence of economic injury caused by these key pests were determined in the fields of growers in northern Illinois. Fifty-eight experiments were conducted in 10 Illinois counties during this 2-yr period. Root injury ratings from these on-farm experiments indic ...
Glycine max; Diabrotica; granules; insecticides; land application; field experimentation; wind speed; wind tunnels; Indiana
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... Lighter clay granules were displaced more in a wind tunnel than heavier sand granules, and displacement increased exponentially with increased wind speed and increased height of drop. Field studies with commercial equipment and controlled winds showed that wind had a significant effect on the distribution of granules on the soil surface. Higher-density sand granules were displaced less than clay g ...
... Various starch-encapsulated semiochemical-insecticide formulations, developed for potential use in adult corn rootworm (Diabrotica spp.) management programs, were evaluated in the laboratory and field for effectiveness on corn rootworm beetles: a carabid, Harpalus pennsylvanicus DeGeer; and a coccinellid, Coleomegilla maculata lengi Timber-lake. Carbaryl was formulated in pregelatinized starch mat ...
Zea mays; Diabrotica; insect attractants; insect control; pheromones; population dynamics; sex ratio; Nebraska
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... Western corn rootworm, Diabrotica virgifera virgifera LeConte, sex pheromone, racemic 8-methyl-2-decyl-propanoate (MDP) was successfully encapsulated in a starch borate (SB) matrix creating a controlled release granular formulation. The release rate of MDP from starch borate granules was attractive to male D. virgifera at high and low D. virgifera population levels in field corn. Male D. virgifera ...
... During a 5-yr study, recommended rates of soil insecticides were applied at planting time to plots of maize, Zea mays L., located on uniform soil. Plots were infested with known populations of eggs of western corn rootworm, Diabrotica virgifera virgifera LeConte, to determine the degree to which insecticides protected roots from larval attack. Moisture in the upper 10 cm of soil and precipitation ...
... The attraction of Diabrotica spp. (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) to single-component and multicomponent lures was evaluated in corn fields by comparing the relative number of beetles caught on sticky traps over a 24-h period. Initial tests in 1985 showed that a mixture of veratrole (V), indole (I), phenylacetaldehyde (P), trans-anethole (A), and eugenol (E) (=VIPAE mixture) caught 26 times more Diabr ...