European Corn Borer (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae) Infestations: Relating Captures in Pheromone and Black-light Traps in Southern Minnesota Cornfields

1984 ◽  
Vol 77 (6) ◽  
pp. 1445-1448 ◽  
Author(s):  
David E. Legg ◽  
H. C Chiang
Keyword(s):  
European Corn Borer ◽  
Light Traps ◽  
Corn Borer ◽  
Black Light ◽  
Lepidoptera Pyralidae

THE AGE OF FEMALE EUROPEAN CORN BORER MOTHS, OSTRINIA NUBILALIS (LEPIDOPTERA: PYRALIDAE), IN THE FIELD AND TESTS OF ITS USE IN FORECASTING DAMAGE TO GREEN PEPPERS

1982 ◽  
Vol 114 (9) ◽  
pp. 769-774
Author(s):  
W. M. Elliott ◽  
J. D. Richardson ◽  
J. Founk
Keyword(s):  
Ostrinia Nubilalis ◽  
European Corn Borer ◽  
Light Trap ◽  
Flight Period ◽  
Light Traps ◽  
Significant Drop ◽  
Corn Borer ◽  
Lepidoptera Pyralidae ◽  
The Mean ◽  
New Recruits

AbstractThe mean post-mating age of mated female moths of the European corn borer, Ostrinia nubilalis (Hübner), from light traps varied from 3.4 to 5.2 days during the June–September flight period at Harrow, Ontario, in a manner consistent with assignment of moths to 3 generations per year. At the beginning of the first generation the mean age was 3.66 days and rose to 5.21 before flights ceased. At the beginning of the second generation the mean age was 3.39 days and rose to 4.47 days. A third generation could be detected in early September by a significant drop in age and an increase in virgin females. The average age of mated females was negatively correlated with the proportion of virgin females in the same week (r = −0.648, P = 0.02), indicating that about 40% of the variance in age of mated females was associated with emergence of new recruits to the population. Females collected with a sweep net from their day time resting places in weeds were either the same age or older than those from the light trap. The mean age of moths from light traps was found to be not meaningful when it was tested as a factor in forecasting damage caused by their progeny in green peppers 3–5 weeks later.

EVIDENCE OF A MALE SEX PHEROMONE IN THE EUROPEAN CORN BORER, OSTRINIA NUBILALIS (HÜBNER) (LEPIDOPTERA: PYRALIDAE)

1992 ◽  
Vol 124 (1) ◽  
pp. 113-116 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lucie Royer ◽  
Jeremy N. McNeil
Keyword(s):  
Sex Pheromone ◽  
Mating System ◽  
Mating Success ◽  
Ostrinia Nubilalis ◽  
European Corn Borer ◽  
Male Pheromone ◽  
Corn Borer ◽  
Male Sex Pheromone ◽  
Lepidoptera Pyralidae ◽  
Male Sex

AbstractEuropean corn borer males have hair pencils located ventrally on the 8th sternite and these are extruded when a male approaches a calling female. The fact that (i) antennectomized females mated significantly less than both intact controls and individuals subjected to other forms of surgery, and (ii) males with hair pencils removed had a significantly lower mating success than control males, suggests that a male pheromone is involved in the mating system of the European corn borer.

Scambus pterophori (Ashm.) (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae), a New Parasite of the European Corn Borer, Pyrausta nubilalis (Hbn.) (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae), in Canada

1959 ◽  
Vol 91 (2) ◽  
pp. 128-128
Author(s):  
Marcel Hudon
Keyword(s):  
European Corn Borer ◽  
Second Generation ◽  
Petri Dish ◽  
First Record ◽  
Corn Borer ◽  
Lepidoptera Pyralidae ◽  
Pyrausta Nubilalis ◽  
Experimental Plots

In late August, 1957, a parasitized second-generation pupa of Pyrausta nubilalis (Hbn.) was observed in silks of an immature corn ear in the experimental plots at St. Jean. The pupa was incubated at 75°F. in a petri dish, and two weeks later an ichneumonid parasite emerged and was identified by Mr. G. S. Walley, Entomology Division, Ottawa, as Scambus pterophori (Ashm.). Asecond generation of P. nubilalis is very unusual in the St. Jean area. This is apparently the first record of this ichneumonid as a parasite of P. nubilalis in Canada.

European Corn Borer (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae) Development Time Model

1996 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
pp. 310-320 ◽  
Author(s):  
B. Got ◽  
J. M. Labatte ◽  
S. Piry
Keyword(s):  
European Corn Borer ◽  
Development Time ◽  
Time Model ◽  
Corn Borer ◽  
Lepidoptera Pyralidae

Reduction of European Corn Borer (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae) Damage by Intercropping Corn with Soybean

1989 ◽  
Vol 82 (5) ◽  
pp. 1455-1459 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ralph C. Martin ◽  
Thor J. Arnason ◽  
John D. H. Lambert ◽  
Pierre Isabelle ◽  
Harvey D. Voldeng ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
European Corn Borer ◽  
Corn Borer ◽  
Lepidoptera Pyralidae

Effects of Precipitation and Wind on Populations of Adult European Corn Borer (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae)1

1983 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
pp. 1193-1196 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas W. Sappington ◽  
William B. Showers
Keyword(s):  
European Corn Borer ◽  
Corn Borer ◽  
Lepidoptera Pyralidae

Central nervous processing of sex pheromones in two strains of the European corn borer Ostrinia nubilalis (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae)

1997 ◽  
Vol 200 (7) ◽  
pp. 1073-1087 ◽  
Author(s):  
S Anton ◽  
C Löfstedt ◽  
B S Hansson
Keyword(s):  
Ostrinia Nubilalis ◽  
Antennal Lobe ◽  
European Corn Borer ◽  
Minor Component ◽  
F1 Hybrids ◽  
Corn Borer ◽  
Response Characteristics ◽  
Neuronal Types ◽  
Lepidoptera Pyralidae ◽  
Staining Techniques

Antennal lobe neurones were investigated in the pyralid moth Ostrinia nubilalis using intracellular recording and staining techniques. Response characteristics of antennal lobe neurones from males in the so-called E and Z strains, in F1 hybrids and in parental backcrosses were studied. The antennal lobe of a male O. nubilalis comprises approximately 30 ordinary glomeruli and three enlarged glomeruli making up the macroglomerular complex (MGC). Receptor neurones enter the antennal lobe via the antennal nerve and arborize in single glomeruli. Intracellularly stained, pheromone-responding projection neurones in both parental strains arborized in different glomeruli within the MGC, irrespective of their response characteristics. Neurones were grouped according to their specificity to single pheromone components and to pheromone blends. Component-specific, blend-specific and generalist neurones were found. Specificity only occurred at low stimulus concentrations and disappeared as concentrations increased. Although all neuronal types were present in both pheromone strains and crossings, differences in abundance and sensitivity were found. In the parental strains, neurones responding to the major pheromone component and to the respective strain-specific blend were more abundant than neurones responding to the minor component and the blend produced by the other strain. Neurones investigated in ZxE hybrids responded similarly to those of E-strain males, whereas neurones in EZxZ paternal backcrosses responded similarly to those of Z males. In the hybrids and paternal backcrosses, hybrid-blend-specific neurones were present that were not found in parental-strain males.

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