Journal of Economic Entomology (1973) 66, 538-539

C.C. Blickenstaff (1973)
Grasshoppers: effect of CO₂ anesthesia
Journal of Economic Entomology 66 (2), 538-539
Abstract: Tests using Schistocerca americana and Melanoplus sanguinipes have shown that carbon dioxide can apparently be used to manipulate grasshoppers in the laboratory without detriment to them or without significantly altering their response to malathion. However, in tests using insecticide, prior anaesthesia resulted in slightly higher mortality.
(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
control - general

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Pest and/or beneficial records:

Beneficial	Pest/Disease/Weed	Crop/Product	Country	Quarant.
	Melanoplus sanguinipes
	Schistocerca americana