Hostname: page-component-745bb68f8f-lrblm Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2025-01-10T23:55:31.570Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

Virus Diseases of Sawflies1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 May 2012

F. T. Bird
F. T. Bird
Affiliation:
Laboratory of Insect Pathology, Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario
Get access Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Extract

Although a virus disease of the larch sawfly, Pristiphora erichsonii (Htg.), has not been discovered, polyhedrosis viruses of several other Tenthredinids are known. They have been used to control infestations of two introduced species: the European spruce sawfly, Diprion hercyniae (Htg.), (Bird, 1954) and the European pine sawfly, Neodiprion sertifer (Geoffr.), (Bird, 1950, 1952, 1953; Dowden, 1953). Unfortunately, the viruses of these, as well as the viruses of several other species tested, are not pathogenic to the larch sawfly. Some viruses, however, appear to he pathogenic to more than one species. J. M. Burk of this laboratory found, for example, that a polyhedrosis virus affecting the native jackpine sawfly, Neudiprion americanus banksianae Roh., is pathogenic to N. sertifer, N. nanulus Schedl, and D. hercyniae.

Type
Articles
Information
The Canadian Entomologist , Volume 87 , Issue 3 , March 1955 , pp. 124 - 127
Copyright
Copyright © Entomological Society of Canada 1955

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

Balch, R. E., and Bird, F. T.. 1944. A virus disease of the European spruce sawfly, Gilpinia hercyniae (Htg.) and its place in natural control. Sci. Agr. 25: 65–80.Google Scholar
Bird, F. T. 1950. The dissemination and propagation of a virus disease affecting the European pine sawfly, Neodiprion sertifer (Geoffr.). Can. Dept. Agr. Forest Insect Invest. Bi-Monthly Prog. Rept. 6 (5).Google Scholar
Bird, F. T. 1952. On the artificial dissemination of the virus disease of the European pine sawfly, Neodiprion sertifer (Geoffr.). Can. Dept. Agr. For. Biol. Div. Bi-Monthly Prog. Rept. 8 (3).Google Scholar
Bird, F. T. 1953. The use of a virus disease in the biological control of the European pine sawfly, Neodiprion sertifer (Geoffr.). Canad. Ent. 85: 437–446.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Bird, F. T. 1953. The effect of metamorphosis on the multiplication of an insect virus. Can. J. Zool., 31: 300–303.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Bird, F. T. 1954. The use of a virus disease in the biological control of the European spruce sawfly, Diprion hercyniae (Htg.). Can. Dept. Agr. For. Biol. Div. Bi-Monthly Prog. Rept. 10.Google Scholar
Dowden, P. B., and Girth, H. B.. 1953. Use of a virus disease to control European pine sawfly. J. Econ. Ent., 46: 525–526.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Franz, J., and Niklas, O. F.. 1954. Feldversuche zur Bekämpfung der roten Kiefernbusch-hornblattwespe (Neodiprion sertifer (Geoffr.)) durch Künstliche Verbreitung einer Virusseuche). Nachr. Deutsch. Pflanzenschutzdienstes. 6: 131–139.Google Scholar
Schwetzowa, O. I. 1950. Die Polyederkrankheit der grossen Wachsmotte (Galleria mellonella L.) und die Rolle des Nahrungsfaktors bei den Viruskrankheiten der Insekten. Mikrobiologia 19: 532–542.Google Scholar
Sippell, W. L. 1952. Winter rearing of the forest tent caterpillar, Malacosoma disstria Hbn. Can. Dept. Agr. For. Biol. Div. Bi-Monthly Prog. Rept. 8 (4).Google Scholar
Vago, C. 1953. Essais d'élimination de la grasserie par activation de sa phase latente. J. Silkworm 5: 73–81.Google Scholar
Yamafuji, K., and Yoshihara, F.. 1950. On the virus production and oxime formation in silkworms fed with nitrites. Agr. Chem. Inst., Kyushi Univ., Fukoka, Japan. 30: 5.Google Scholar