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EFFECTS OF DATE OF SOIL DISTURBANCE ON NUMBERS OF ADULT FIELD CRICKETS (ORTHOPTERA: GRYLLIDAE), IN FLORIDA1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 May 2012

Carol A. Rolph Kay ,
Joyce Naffziger Veazey  and
W. H. Whitcomb
Carol A. Rolph Kay
Affiliation:
Department of Entomology and Nematology, University of Florida, Gainesville
Joyce Naffziger Veazey
Affiliation:
Department of Entomology and Nematology, University of Florida, Gainesville
W. H. Whitcomb
Affiliation:
Department of Entomology and Nematology, University of Florida, Gainesville
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Abstract

Adults of Gryllus rubens Scudder, G. firmus Scudder, and G. ovisopis Walker were collected for 4 years from plots disked annually on one of six dates and from undisturbed plots to examine effects of date of soil disturbance on field cricket populations. Adults of the two field-inhabiting species, G. rubens and G. firmus, were most numerous from plots disked in February or April and least numerous from the plots disked in October and from the undisturbed (control) plots. Adults of G. ovisopis, a species that normally inhabits forests, were most numerous from the undisturbed plots and least numerous from the plots disked in August.

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The Canadian Entomologist , Volume 109 , Issue 5 , May 1977 , pp. 721 - 726
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Copyright © Entomological Society of Canada 1977

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