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A self‐powered portable insect suction sampler and its use to assess the effects of azinphos methyl and endosulfan on blossom beetle populations on oil seed rape
Author(s) -
ARNOLD A. J.,
NEEDHAM P. H.,
STEVENSON J. H.
Publication year - 1973
Publication title -
annals of applied biology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.677
H-Index - 80
eISSN - 1744-7348
pISSN - 0003-4746
DOI - 10.1111/j.1744-7348.1973.tb07302.x
Subject(s) - biology , suction , endosulfan , insect , sampling (signal processing) , horticulture , botany , toxicology , agronomy , pesticide , mechanical engineering , filter (signal processing) , computer science , computer vision , engineering
SUMMARY A new portable insect suction sampler, powered by a small petrol engine, is described. It has been in use for three seasons, and examples given of samples taken from oil‐seed rape demonstrate that the suction method is more informative than visual counts or sweep‐net sampling for assessing blossom beetle populations.