Overwinter Survival of Boll Weevils (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) in the Texas Rolling Plains
作者:
J. E. Slosser,
T. W. Fuchs,
期刊:
Environmental Entomology
(OUP Available online 1991)
卷期:
Volume 20,
issue 3
页码: 877-881
ISSN:0046-225X
年代: 1991
DOI:10.1093/ee/20.3.877
出版商: Oxford University Press
关键词: Insecta;Anthonomus grandis;mesquite litter;environment
数据来源: OUP
摘要:
Overwinter survival of the boll weevil,Anthonomus grandisBoheman, was compared in the southern and northern Texas Rolling Plains over a 4-yr period. In one test, survival in mesquite (Prosopis glandulosaTorr.) litter was compared to that in broadleaf litter during the winters of 1985–1986, 1986–1987, and 1987–1988. Mesquite litter was a suitable overwintering habitat, and overwinter survival in mesquite litter was comparable to that in broadleaf litter in the southern and northern Rolling Plains. Spring emergence terminated earlier in mesquite litter as compared with that in broadleaf litter in both the southern and northern Rolling Plains. In a second test conducted during the winters of 1986–1989, overwinter survival of four different populations was compared in the southern and northern Rolling Plains. The results of the second test indicated that there are no genetic differences in overwintering ability in Rolling Plains boll weevils. A multiple regression analysis indicated that unique winter weather patterns at each overwintering location were mainly responsible for determining degree of overwintering mortality.
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