Hostname: page-component-8448b6f56d-jr42d Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-04-24T04:34:04.368Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

THE AERIAL APHID PLANKTON OVER THE RESEARCH STATION, FREDERICTON, NEW BRUNSWICK, 1967–1969

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 May 2012

Jean B. Adams ,
M. E. Drew  and
M. E. MacGillivray
Jean B. Adams
Affiliation:
Research Station, Agriculture Canada, Fredericton, New Brunswick
M. E. Drew
Affiliation:
Research Station, Agriculture Canada, Fredericton, New Brunswick
M. E. MacGillivray
Affiliation:
Research Station, Agriculture Canada, Fredericton, New Brunswick
Get access Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Abstract

Gauze covers placed over the entrance of one air intake louver (1.52 m × 1.52 m, ht. 11.85 m, air passage 3055.8 cu.m/min) on the penthouse of the Research Station, from May until December, during a 3-year period, trapped more than 150 aphid species. In addition a considerable amount of intercepted aphid material was identified to genus only. A total of 31,482 specimens were trapped over the period.

Five species, Rhopalosiphum maidis (Fitch), Rhopalosiphum padi (Linnaeus), Mindarus abietinus Koch, Alhis craccae Linnaeus, and Capitophorus eleagni (del Guercio), predominated in all years. In 1967 and 1968 more than 100 specimens each of Pterocallis alnifoliae (Fitch), Tinocallis ulmifolii Monell, Myzocallis occultus Richards, Prociphilus americanus (Walker), Capitophorus hippophaes (Walker), Hayhurstia atriplicis (Linnaeus), Thuleaphis rumexicolens (Patch), and Myzus persicae (Sulzer) were trapped each year.

Once potential development temperatures were reached there was little correlation between mean temperatures and aphid numbers up until frost.

The earliest interception was 6 May; general dispersal was under way by 6 June and continued until late November, despite preceding October frost.

Type
Articles
Information
The Canadian Entomologist , Volume 108 , Issue 10 , October 1976 , pp. 1069 - 1078
Copyright
Copyright © Entomological Society of Canada 1976

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

Adams, Jean B. and Drew, Margaret E.. 1964. Grain aphids in New Brunswick. I. Field development of oats. Can. J. Zool. 42: 735–740.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Gorham, R. P. 1942. Aphid surveys. In Techn. Reports, Field Crop Insect Laboratory, Fredericton, N.B.Google Scholar
Hille Ris Lambers, D. 1950. On mounting aphids and other soft-skinned insects. Ent. Ber., Amst. 13: 55–58.Google Scholar
Johnson, C. G. 1969. Migration and dispersal of insects by flight. Methuen. 763 pp.Google Scholar
MacGillivray, M. E. 1960. Notes on life-history and taxonomy of Ceruraphis eriophori (Wlk.) and Neoceruraphis viburnicola (Gill.), and a descrption of the apterous viviparous female of Neoceruraphis viburnicola (Gill.) (Homoptera: Aphididae). Can. Ent. 92: 704–707.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Medlar, J. T. and Ghosh, A. K.. 1969. Keys to species of alate aphids collected by suction wind and yellow pan water traps in the North Central States, Oklahoma and Texas. Res. Bull. Coll. Agric. Life Sci. Univ. Wisc. 277. 99 pp.Google Scholar
Moericke, J. 1957. Der Flug von Insekten über pflanzenfreien und pflanzengewachsenen Flächen. Z. Pflkrankh. Pflschutz. 64: 507–514.Google Scholar
Shands, W. A., Simpson, G. W., and Covell, M.. 1955. Aphids caught in wind vane traps with openings of different sizes. J. econ. Ent. 48: 624–625.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Taylor, L. R. and Palmer, J. M. P.. 1972. Aerial sampling, pp. 189–234. In van Emden, H. F. [Ed.], Aphid technology. Academic Press, London and New York.Google Scholar