Hostname: page-component-cd9895bd7-jn8rn Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-12-27T10:29:34.583Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

The Summer Hosts of Aphis fabae, Scop.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 July 2009

Margaret G. Jones
Margaret G. Jones
Affiliation:
Department of Entomology, Zoological Laboratory, Cambridge.
Get access Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Extract

1. When spring migrants of Aphis fabae, Scop., from Euonymus europaeus and Viburnum opulus are given a choice of summer host plants enclosed by a muslin cage, they colonise bean first and then sugar beet. Dock, poppy and Chenopodium are colonised in no very definite order, but thistle is the last plant to be infested.

2. Further infestation of surrounding plants takes place rapidly by means of apterae, which migrate actively and colonise plants at random.

3. The total number of Aphids on the summer host plants is of the same order as the times of colonisation.

4. The effect of parasites and predators is proportional to the numbers present and to the size of the colony.

5. The results do not indicate the presence of biological races on the chosen host plants.

I should like to thank Mr. F. G. W. Jones, of the School of Agriculture, Cambridge, for his help in preparing the ground for the plots and in rearing some of the plants, and Dr. W. H. Thorpe for his criticism.

Type
Original Articles
Information
Bulletin of Entomological Research , Volume 33 , Issue 3 , October 1942 , pp. 161 - 169
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1942

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

Börner, C. & Schilder, F. A. (1932). In Sorauer, P., Handb. Pflkrankh., p. 551. Berlin.Google Scholar
Davidson, J. (1921). Ann. appl. Biol., 8, p. 51.Google Scholar
Franssen, C. J. H. (1930). Z. angew. Ent., 17, p. 106.Google Scholar
Mordwilko, A. K. (1907). Biol. Zbl., 27, p. 807.Google Scholar
Theobald, F. V. (1927). Aphididae of Great Britain, 2, p. 102. London.Google Scholar