Effect of DDT on Pink Bollworm Populations1
- 1 June 1963
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Journal of Economic Entomology
- Vol. 56 (3), 388-390
- https://doi.org/10.1093/jee/56.3.388
Abstract
Populations of pink bollworm adults, Pectinophora gossypiella (Saunders), were estimated in two sections of a ⅙-acre screened cage by using light traps and moths marked with dye. The populations increased 14.6-fold per generation in the untreated section and 3.8-fold per generation in the section treated with eight spray applications of DDT at the rate of 2.5 pounds per acre.This publication has 2 references indexed in Scilit:
- Further Studies on the Attraction of Pink Bollworm Moths to Ultraviolet and Visible Radiation1Journal of Economic Entomology, 1956
- Pink Bollworm, Platyedra gossypiella (Saund.), as a Pest of Cotton at Zeidab, Northern SudanBulletin of Entomological Research, 1951