Pest Management Science: Editorial for January 2006 Issue

2005 ◽  
Vol 62 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-2
Author(s):  
Gerry Brooks
2018 ◽  
Vol 74 (10) ◽  
pp. 2209-2210
Author(s):  
Todd A Gaines ◽  
Dale L Shaner ◽  
Franck E Dayan

2017 ◽  
Vol 74 (1) ◽  
pp. 7-8
Author(s):  
Stephen O. Duke

Author(s):  
J. R. Adams ◽  
G. J Tompkins ◽  
A. M. Heimpel ◽  
E. Dougherty

As part of a continual search for potential pathogens of insects for use in biological control or on an integrated pest management program, two bacilliform virus-like particles (VLP) of similar morphology have been found in the Mexican bean beetle Epilachna varivestis Mulsant and the house cricket, Acheta domesticus (L. ).Tissues of diseased larvae and adults of E. varivestis and all developmental stages of A. domesticus were fixed according to procedures previously described. While the bean beetles displayed no external symptoms, the diseased crickets displayed a twitching and shaking of the metathoracic legs and a lowered rate of activity.Examinations of larvae and adult Mexican bean beetles collected in the field in 1976 and 1977 in Maryland and field collected specimens brought into the lab in the fall and reared through several generations revealed that specimens from each collection contained vesicles in the cytoplasm of the midgut filled with hundreds of these VLP's which were enveloped and measured approximately 16-25 nm x 55-110 nm, the shorter VLP's generally having the greater width (Fig. 1).


1970 ◽  
Vol 15 (6) ◽  
pp. 422-423
Author(s):  
ALBERT S. GLICKMAN

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