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Insect Transmission of Fireblight
Author(s) -
Emmett B. J.,
Baker Lily A. E.
Publication year - 1971
Publication title -
plant pathology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.928
H-Index - 85
eISSN - 1365-3059
pISSN - 0032-0862
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-3059.1971.tb00507.x
Subject(s) - biology , pear , aphid , botany
SUMMARY The following insects, after being allowed contact with a culture of Erwinia amylovora and then enclosed with trusses of primary blossom of pear or apple, were found to transmit fireblight disease to (a) pear: an aphid species, Meligethes sp., Bombus terrestris, B. hortorum. Apis mellifera, Andrena varians, Hoplocampa testudinea, Eristalis tenax, Neoascia sp., Scopeuma stercorarium; and to (b) apple: Andrena varians, H. testudinea, E. tenax and Lucilia sp. In preliminary tests the following transmitted the disease to vegetative shoots of (a) pear: Psylla simulans, Philaenus spumarius, Lygocoris pabulinus and Orthotylus marginalis; and (b) apple: Psylla simulans .