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INSECT PESTS OF CARROTS IN ORGANIC SOILS OF SOUTHWESTERN QUEBEC WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO THE CARROT WEEVIL, LISTRONOTUS OREGONENSIS (COLEOPTERA: CURCULIONIDAE)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 May 2012

J. P. Perron
J. P. Perron
Affiliation:
Research Station, Canada Department of Agriculture, St. Jean, Quebec
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Abstract

A survey of the insect pests of carrots was conducted in the organic soils of southwestern Quebec with a view to establishing the presence of the carrot weevil, Listronotus oregonensis (Lec.), in this province as well as to confirm the importance of other pests damaging carrot crops. Four different methods were used to capture adults, and the root sampling method was used for establishing larval populations.The carrot weevil was captured by light trap for the first time in Quebec on 1 June 1967, but was neither recognized nor identified until June 1970 when a few specimens were obtained again by light trap set at Ste. Clotilde and by colour traps placed in the experimental fields used for the survey in 1970. Damage caused by this new pest on carrots ranged from 2.0% to 22.0% root injuries throughout the carrot growing areas of the organic soil regions of Sherrington, St. Michel, and Ste. Clotilde representing several thousands of acres. The carrot rust fly, Psila rosae (F.), was the only other carrot pest captured, but has been found to be of no importance in these areas.

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The Canadian Entomologist , Volume 103 , Issue 10 , October 1971 , pp. 1441 - 1448
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Copyright © Entomological Society of Canada 1971

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