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SEX RATIO IN THREE STAGES OF FIELD COLLECTED CODLING MOTH1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 May 2012

C. R. MacLellan
Affiliation:
Research Station, Canada Agriculture, Kentville, Nova Scotia

Abstract

The sex ratios of codling moth winter larvae, adults, and summer larvae changed inversely with codling moth density changes in commercial orchards over a 17-year period.

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Articles
Copyright
Copyright © Entomological Society of Canada 1972

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