Potential crop damage by the morning-glory leaf miner to sweet potatoes in California

Shorey, H; Anderson, L

Potential crop damage by the morning-glory leaf miner to sweet potatoes in California

Authors

H. H. Shorey
L. D. Anderson

Authors Affiliations

H. H. Shorey is Assistant Entomologist, University of California, Riverside; L. D. Anderson is Entomologist, University of California, Riverside.

Publication Information

Hilgardia 15(7):15-15. DOI:10.3733/ca.v015n07p15. July 1961.

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Abstract

Sweet potatoes typically have fewer insect pest problems than do most other vegetable crops. However, a potentially serious pest in California which occasionally reaches outbreak proportions on sweet potatoes is the morning-glory leaf miner—Bedellia somnulentella Zeller.

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