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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"Striped cucumber beetle"”.
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Linking Semiochemical Ecology and Spatial Dynamics to Improve Integrated Pest Management of Striped Cucumber Beetle, Acalymma vittatum
The striped cucumber beetle, Acalymma vittatum (Fabr.), is a major early-season pest of cucurbits in eastern North America because overwintering adults injure seedlings while they are young and highly vulnerable to feeding damage or infection by Erwinia tracheiphila, the causal agent of bacterial …
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Managing bacterial wilt, caused by Erwinia tracheiphila, on muskmelon with early control of striped cucumber beetle ( Acalymma vittatum (F)), and through varietal selection
… tracheiphila (E. F. Smith), and vectored by striped cucumber beetle (<em>Acalymma vittatum</em> (F)), is one of the most serious diseases of muskmelon that influences muskmelon quality and yield. Many cultivars of muskmelon are grown around the United States, especially in the Midwest. …
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Evaluation of the Growth and Yield of Cucumber Plants as Affected by the Feeding of Known Populations of the Striped Cucumber Beetle, Acalymma Vittata (Fab.)
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The Role of Attractants and Feeding Stimulants in The Selection of Cucurbita Flowers by Diabroticite Beetles, (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae)
… of olfactory stimulants for diabroticite beetles. While the mixture contained at least 40 components only one, indole, produced a substantial response in an electroantennogram bioassay. Field testing of indole using sticky traps showed it to be a potent attractant of the western corn …
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Functional and ecological investigations in Cucurbita: factors mediating fruit infections and insect interactions
… alternative virulence factors. Cucurbit‐feeding beetles such as western corn rootworm, Diabrotica virgifera virgifera LeConte (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae), spotted cucumber beetle Diabrotica undecimpunctata howardi Barber (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae), and the striped cucumber beetle, Acalymma …
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Protection of organic cucumber production against striped cucumber beetles using trap crops
Thesis (M.S.)--Michigan State University. Entomology, 2010