Journal of Economic Entomology (1963) 56, 397-399

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O.L. Barnes (1963)
Food-plant tests with the differential grasshopper
Journal of Economic Entomology 56 (3), 397-399
Abstract: Feeding trials with Melanoplus differentialis showed that an exclusive diet of lucerne (alfalfa) was inadequate for complete nymphal diet; mixed food plants were required. Increasing the density of any food plant in relation to others present in cage tests increased the amount of feeding on that plant. It is suggested that weed control in lucerne fields would probably reduce infestations of M. differentialis.
(The abstract is excluded from the Creative Commons licence and has been copied from Acridological Abstracts with permission by NRI, Univ. of Greenwich at Medway.)


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

Pest and/or beneficial records:

Beneficial Pest/Disease/Weed Crop/Product Country Quarant.


Melanoplus differentialis Alfalfa/lucerne (Medicago sativa)
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