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Population Dynamics of Leptinotarsa decemlineata (Say) in Eastern Ontario: I. Spatial Pattern and Transformation of Field Counts

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 May 2012

D. G. Harcourt
D. G. Harcourt
Affiliation:
Entomology Research Institute, Research Branch, Canada Department of Agriculture, Ottawa, Ontario
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Abstract

Counts of the Colorado potato beetle on potato did not conform to the Poisson distribution, there being an excess of uninfested and highly infested hills over the expected numbers. However, when observed distributions were fitted to the negative binomial series, the discrepancies were not significant when tested by chi-square. The negative binomial parameter k tended to increase with density. Using a common k, the distribution of the various stages may be described by expansion of (q − px)−k, when values of k are as follows: adult, 1.95; egg mass, 4.10; first instar, 0.68; second instar, 0.78; third instar, 1.04; fourth instar, 1.07.

For all stages, the variance was proportional to a fractional power of the mean. Use of the individual potato stalk as a sample unit had little effect on the skewness of the distribution. Four transformations are offered for stabilizing the variance of field counts.

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The Canadian Entomologist , Volume 95 , Issue 8 , August 1963 , pp. 813 - 820
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Copyright © Entomological Society of Canada 1963

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