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CARABIDAE (COLEOPTERA) AS PREDATORS OF THE RED-BACKED CUTWORM (LEPIDOPTERA: NOCTUIDAE) IN CENTRAL ALBERTA

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 May 2012

J. H. Frank
J. H. Frank
Affiliation:
Department of Entomology, University of Alberta, Edmonton
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Abstract

Twenty-one sympatric species of Carabidae fed on eggs of Euxoa ochrogaster Guenée in laboratory trials. Seven species were demonstrated to have fed in the field on cutworms or pupae of E. ochrogaster and six species fed on cutworms in the laboratory. Carabidae are important as predators of E. ochrogaster but failed to eliminate the prey population in a study area in central Alberta.

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The Canadian Entomologist , Volume 103 , Issue 7 , July 1971 , pp. 1039 - 1044
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Copyright © Entomological Society of Canada 1971

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