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Nectar of Peach Leaf Glands as Insect Food1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 May 2012

Wm. L. Putman
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Abstract

The secretion of the extrafloral nectaries on peach leaves is consumed by many insects. It is especially important as food for some stages of a number of predators and parasites that usually feed on honeydew and blossoms, but it cannot completely replace these foods for those species requiring nitrogenous components.

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The Canadian Entomologist , Volume 95 , Issue 1 , January 1963 , pp. 108 - 109
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Copyright © Entomological Society of Canada 1963

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