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The predators of wheat‐bulb fly
Author(s) -
Jones Margaret G.
Publication year - 1975
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.1744-7348.1975.tb01611.x
Subject(s) - biology , predation , bulb , larva , pest analysis , shoot , agronomy , horticulture , botany , ecology
SUMMARY Wheat bulb fly, a pest of winter weat, has one generation a year and all stages exist for at least a month. The feeding larva inside the shoot is protected, except when moving to a new shoot, but all the other stages are exposed to attack by non‐specific predators, either by soil‐living beetles feeding on eggs and puparia in the soil, or predatory flies and birds feeding on the adults.