• EVALUATING THE EFFECT OF POTATO LEAFHOPPER (EMPOASCA FABAE) FEEDING ON BIOLOGICAL NITROGEN FIXATION IN ALFALFA (MEDICAGO SATIVA) 

  Thompson, Morgan (2019)

  Aboveground feeding by potato leafhopper (PLH), Empoasca fabae, (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae) causes significant injury to alfalfa (Medicago sativa), including disrupting translocation of fixed carbon from leaves to roots. ...

• Can Cover Crop Residues Suppress Pests and Improve Yield in Eggplant? 

  Coffey, Peter Lawson (2018)

  Field studies were conducted over three growing seasons to investigate the effects of planting eggplant following three winter cover crop treatments on the abundance, predation, and colonization of Colorado potato beetle ...

• SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION, HABITAT PREFERENCE, AND SOCIETAL IMPACT OF THE NUISANCE BLACK FLY, SIMULIUM JENNINGSI 

  Wilson, Rebecca Cathleen (2018)

  Black flies (Diptera: Simuliidae) can cause pest problems through the females’ blood-seeking behavior. Nuisance black flies are managed through area-wide pest management at the larval stage, which necessitates tracking the ...

• FOREST MICRO-HYMENOPTERA, INCLUDING THOSE ATTACKING TREES (CYNIPIDAE OAK GALL WASPS) AND THOSE POTENTIALLY DEFENDING THEM (PARASITIC PTEROMALIDAE) 

  Cooke, Crystal (2018)

  The first part of this dissertation details studies involving an important group of insects attacking oaks, the oak gall wasps (Cynipidae: Cynipini). The second part deals with pteromalid parasitoids involved in thousand ...

• The Effect of Plant Nutrition on the Reproductive Rate and Susceptibility to Malathion of Two Strains of the Two-Spotted Spider Mite, Tetranychus telarius (L.) 

  Henneberry, Thomas J. (1960)

  Studies were conducted to determine the effect of plant nutrition on the reproductive rate and susceptibility to malathion of two strains of the two-spotted spider mite. The two strains of mites used as test organisms are ...

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