Environmental Entomology (1996) 25, 599-602

Peter W. Shearer and Vincent P. Jones (1996)
Diel feeding pattern of adult female southern green stink bug (Hemiptera: Pentatomidae)
Environmental Entomology 25 (3), 599-602
Abstract: An activity recorder was used to determine if adult female southern green stink bug, Nezara viridula (L.), exhibit diel feeding behavior in the laboratory. The activity recorder simultaneously monitored separate feeding events from 11 individual adult N. viridula. Twenty-four-hour feeding tests demonstrated that laboratory-reared adult female N. viridula fed for longer durations during scotophase (~12 min/h) than photophase (~4 min/h). This study demonstrated that an important component of N. viridula behavior had been neglected previously.
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Database assignments for author(s): Vincent P. Jones, Peter W. Shearer

Research topic(s) for pests/diseases/weeds:
general biology - morphology - evolution

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Pest and/or beneficial records:

Beneficial	Pest/Disease/Weed	Crop/Product	Country	Quarant.
	Nezara viridula		U.S.A. (Hawaii)