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APPLICATION OF NUCLEAR POLYHEDROSIS VIRUS TO CONTROL BRUCE SPANWORM (LEPIDOPTERA: GEOMETRIDAE)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 May 2012

W. G. H. Ives  and
J. C. Cunningham
W. G. H. Ives
Affiliation:
Canadian Forestry Service, Northern Forest Research Centre, Edmonton, Alberta T6H 3S5
J. C. Cunningham
Affiliation:
Canadian Forestry Service, Forest Pest Management Institute, Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario P6A 5M7
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A polyhedrosis virus was found in collections of Bruce spanworm, Operophtera bruceata (Hulst), larvae from two locations in British Columbia in 1957 (O. N. Morris, pers. comm.). Bruce spanworm was prevalent in the Maritime Provinces and Quebec in 1963 and 1964 and a polyhedrosis virus was credited with terminating this outbreak (Forbes et al. 1964, 1965; Martineau 1964, 1965). A detailed examination of the virus from Quebec showed that it was a singly-embedded (unicapsid) nuclear polyhedrosis virus (Smirnoff 1964) which is classified as Baculovirus subgroup A (Matthews 1979).

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The Canadian Entomologist , Volume 112 , Issue 7 , 01 July 1980 , pp. 741 - 744
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Copyright © Entomological Society of Canada 1980

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