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Gamma irradiation of the western cherry fruit fly for the sterile male control technique

Creator:

Brown, Robert David

Abstract:

The western cherry fruit fly, Rhagoletis indifferens Curran, was studied to determine the suitability of the sterile insect technique for its control. To obtain insect material, field collection of maggots is preferred to sifting of soil or rearing on artificial diet. The western cherry fruit fly is strictly univoltine; only...

Resource Type:

Dissertation
A biological and systematic study of the armored boreid, Caurinus dectes, with comparative notes on related mecoptera

Creator:

Russell, Loren Kenneth

Abstract:

Caurinus dectes Russell is a minute, brachypterous scorpionfly which was discovered at Marys Peak, Benton County, Oregon, in 1976, and subsequently described as the only representative of the subfamily Caurininae within the Boreidae (snow scorpionflies). Caurinus dectes is now known to range from the Olympic Peninsula and Northern Cascades in...

Resource Type:

Dissertation