The toxicity of menthol, menthone, pulegone, limonene, and a-pinene, five monoterpenes found in peppermint (Mentha piperita L.), to the variegated cutworm (Peridroma saucia Hiibner) was characterized by in vivo and in vitro methods. Pulegone and menthone caused slower growth over six days when incorporated into an artificial diet and fed...
Pergamasus quisquiliarum Canestini is a polyphagous predatory mite that has been shown to feed on the economically important arthropod, Scutigerella immaculata Newport (Symphyla: Scutigerellidae), Collembola, Diptera larvae, Enchytraeid worms, and miscellaneous other soil organisms. This study examined the feeding behavior of P. quisquiliarum, the effects of cover cropping and tillage...
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Heat resistant sporeforming psychrotrophic bacteria were
isolated from raw milk samples from 59 Grade A farms in Oregon.
Forty-nine of the 59 (83%) raw milk samples in this survey
contained sporeforming psychrotrophic bacteria; isolates from
twenty-four (40%) of the samples exhibited proteolytic properties. Populations of sporeforming psychrotrophic bacteria ranged
from...
The dynamics of a field population of the cinnabar moth, Tyria
jacobaeae L., were studied near Jordan, Linn County, Oregon. In
both 1970 and 1971 larval populations were so large that all foliage of
the host weed, tansy ragwort, Senecio jacobaea L., was consumed.
The ensuing starvation accounted for the...