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Filtering by: Subject Wildlife pests -- Control -- Oregon Creator Booth, Steven R. Degree Level Doctoral

The potential of endemic natural enemies to suppress pear psylla, Cacopsylla pyricola Förster, in the Hood River Valley, Oregon

Creator:

Booth, Steven R.

Abstract:

This thesis addressed the potential of endemic predaceous and parasitic arthropods of the Hood River Valley, Oregon to suppress the pear psylla, Cacopsylla pyricola F8rster. Natural enemies adequately suppressed psylla in three of seven unsprayed orchards of differing vegetational settings, orchard age, and size. Relatively few psylla natural enemies dispersed...

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Dissertation

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herbaceous non-pear hosts. Selective programs of pear pest control based on diflubenzuron were moderately