Cereal aphids started to infest cereals in the first week of June and reached their peak in the second and third week of July. They could affect both the quantity and quality of grain yields, but I recommend chemical control only when the aphid population reaches the economic threshold level, which was calculated as 16 aphids/tiller. Pirimicarb is recommended for chemical control, as it controlled aphids efficiently and had a minimal effect on the available predators and parasites. A sequential sampling plan has been developed to detect if populations reach economic threshold. Temperature accumulation, starting from the first detection of aphids on the crop, allowed prediction of the time of peak population on the crop.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:LACETR/oai:collectionscanada.gc.ca:QMM.68493 |
| Date | January 1980 |
| Creators | Ba-Angood, Saeed Abdulla. |
| Publisher | McGill University |
| Source Sets | Library and Archives Canada ETDs Repository / Centre d'archives des thèses électroniques de Bibliothèque et Archives Canada |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Electronic Thesis or Dissertation |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Coverage | Doctor of Philosophy (Department of Entomology) |
| Rights | All items in eScholarship@McGill are protected by copyright with all rights reserved unless otherwise indicated. |
| Relation | alephsysno: 000592396, proquestno: AAINK50383, Theses scanned by UMI/ProQuest. |
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