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Investigations on the Cotton Bollworm, Heliothis armigera, Hübn

Part III. Relationships between Oviposition and the Flowering Curves of Food-plants*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 July 2009

F. S. Parsons
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Studies of the food-plant associations of Heliothis armigera have elicited the information that, for all practical purposes, egg-laying may be considered as confined to the period of florescence. Evidence of coincidence of the oviposition and flowering curves is submitted for 21 species of short-flowering crops and 8 species of long-flowering crops. All told, records taken in nearly 1,000 crops have been consulted for the conclusions drawn.

As regards short-flowering species, the peaks, as well as the confines, of the oviposition and flowering curves are related closely. But oviposition on long-flowering species may decline while flowering is still in progress, or two or more waves of oviposition may be evident according to the number of moth flights spanned by the flowering period. The courses of oviposition on long-flowering species of crop in the given instances are interpreted through knowledge of the train of moth flights: although egg-laying in quantity occurs within the flowering period, peak layings frequently are not aligned with maximum flower production because the calendar times of moth flights are displaced in relation thereto.

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Bulletin of Entomological Research , Volume 31 , Issue 2 , June 1940 , pp. 147 - 177
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1940

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