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Rearing the wheat stem sawfly on an artificial diet

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 April 2012

Tuilo B. Macedo ,
Paula A. Macedo ,
Robert K.D. Peterson ,
David K. Weaver  and
Wendell L. Morrill
Tuilo B. Macedo*
Affiliation:
Department of Entomology, 333 Leon Johnson Hall, Montana State University, Bozeman, Montana 59717, United States of America
Paula A. Macedo
Affiliation:
Department of Entomology, 333 Leon Johnson Hall, Montana State University, Bozeman, Montana 59717, United States of America
Robert K.D. Peterson
Affiliation:
Department of Entomology, 333 Leon Johnson Hall, Montana State University, Bozeman, Montana 59717, United States of America
David K. Weaver
Affiliation:
Department of Entomology, 333 Leon Johnson Hall, Montana State University, Bozeman, Montana 59717, United States of America
Wendell L. Morrill
Affiliation:
Department of Entomology, 333 Leon Johnson Hall, Montana State University, Bozeman, Montana 59717, United States of America
*
1Corresponding author (e-mail: tmacedo@montana.edu).
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The wheat stem sawfly, Cephus cinctus Norton (Hymenoptera: Cephidae), is an insect pest in dryland wheat cropping systems in the southern Canadian Prairies and the northern Great Plains of the United States (Morrill 1997). Yield losses caused by C. cinctus are due to reduced head weight (Holmes 1977; Morrill et al. 1992) and lodging, which decreases harvest efficiency. Estimates of yield losses in Montana alone are about US$25 million per year.

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The Canadian Entomologist , Volume 137 , Issue 4 , August 2005 , pp. 497 - 500
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Copyright © Entomological Society of Canada 2005

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