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Varietal Responses of Seeded Onions to the Onion Maggot

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 May 2012

W. G. Matthewman
Affiliation:
Field Crop Insect Laboratories, Division of Entomology, Canada Department of Agriculture, Ottawa, Ont., and St. Jean, Que.
J. P. Perron
Affiliation:
Field Crop Insect Laboratories, Division of Entomology, Canada Department of Agriculture, Ottawa, Ont., and St. Jean, Que.
L. M. Cass
Affiliation:
Field Crop Insect Laboratories, Division of Entomology, Canada Department of Agriculture, Ottawa, Ont., and St. Jean, Que.

Extract

From 1945 to 1949 tests were conducted at Ottawa to determine whether certain of the more commonly grown commercial varieties of onions are resistant to the onion maggot, Hylemya antiqua (Meig.). Sleesman (1934), from the results of field tests in Ohio, had concluded that some varieties of onions do support significantly higher populations of the maggot than others.

In 1945 and 1946 at Ottawa, 17 varieties of onions were tested; in 1947, 1948, and 1949 the number was reduced to nine, which are listed in Table I.

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Copyright
Copyright © Entomological Society of Canada 1953

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References

Sleesman, J. P. 1934. Onion maggot, Hylemyia antiqua Meig. In Ohio Agr. Expt. Sta. Bull. 532 (52nd Ann. Rept.): 41.Google Scholar