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SEXING AND REARING THE BLACK TURPENTINE BEETLE (COLEOPTERA: SCOLYTIDAE)1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 May 2012

John F. Godbee Jr.  and
Rudolph T. Franklin
John F. Godbee Jr.
Affiliation:
School of Forest Resources, University of Georgia, Athens 30602
Rudolph T. Franklin
Affiliation:
School of Forest Resources, University of Georgia, Athens 30602
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Abstract

Dendroctonus terebrans (Olivier) adults may be accurately sexed by means of the seventh abdominal tergite. Stridulation sound and stridulation movement are useful especially in field observations but not completely accurate because some male beetles do not stridulate and some females do.

Laboratory rearing is accomplished by the introduction of parent beetles to fresh pine bolts. Development takes ca. 78 days at 23 °C ± 2 °C or ca. 1302 degree days of effective temperature.

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The Canadian Entomologist , Volume 110 , Issue 10 , October 1978 , pp. 1087 - 1089
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Copyright © Entomological Society of Canada 1978

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