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Flea beetle (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) species in canola (Brassicaceae) on the northern Great Plains of North America

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 January 2018

Juliana Soroka ,
Larry Grenkow ,
Jennifer Otani ,
John Gavloski  and
Owen Olfert
Juliana Soroka*
Affiliation:
Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Saskatoon Research and Development Centre, 107 Science Place, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, S7N 0X2, Canada
Larry Grenkow
Affiliation:
Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Saskatoon Research and Development Centre, 107 Science Place, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, S7N 0X2, Canada
Jennifer Otani
Affiliation:
Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Beaverlodge Research Farm, Beaverlodge, Alberta, T0H 0C0, Canada
John Gavloski
Affiliation:
Manitoba Agriculture, Crop Industry Branch, Carman, Manitoba, R0G 0J0, Canada
Owen Olfert
Affiliation:
Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Saskatoon Research and Development Centre, 107 Science Place, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, S7N 0X2, Canada
*
1Corresponding author (e-mail: Julie.Soroka@agr.gc.ca)
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Abstract

Flea beetle (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) species and numbers were determined from yellow sticky traps (n=11 180) set out in canola (Brassica Linnaeus, Brassicaceae) fields at 300 site years and 15 ecoregions across the Canadian Prairie provinces in each spring of 2007–2011 and in North Dakota, United States of America in 2010–2011. Peak numbers and relative species abundance varied with year, site, and ecoregion. Phyllotreta striolata (Fabricius) was most common in northern ecoregions, whereas Phyllotreta cruciferae (Goeze) dominated nearer the 49th parallel. The proportion of P. striolata in northern areas increased dramatically compared with surveys in the 1970s. Phyllotreta striolata displaced Psylliodes punctulata Melsheimer as the most common flea beetle in the Peace River Lowlands, displaced P. cruciferae as the most common flea beetle in the Aspen Parkland of central Alberta, Canada, and increased in proportion in central Saskatchewan and much of Manitoba, Canada. Once rare in southern ecoregions, P. striolata was found there in increasing numbers. Temperature was the most consistent weather parameter to predict occurrence of both P. cruciferae and P. striolata. Although P. striolata became more numerous over years in four of seven principal ecoregions, P. cruciferae remained the predominant species on traps with the highest numbers of flea beetles.

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Behaviour & Ecology
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The Canadian Entomologist , Volume 150 , Issue 1 , February 2018 , pp. 100 - 115
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© Her Majesty the Queen in Right of Canada 2018 

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