Effect of Bathyplectes curculionis on the alfalfa-weevil population in lowland middle California

Michelbacher, A

Effect of Bathyplectes curculionis on the alfalfa-weevil population in lowland middle California

Author

A. E. Michelbacher

Author Affiliations

A. E. Michelbacher was Junior Entomologist in the Experiment Station, Division of Entomology and Parasitology, Berkeley, California.

Publication Information

Hilgardia 13(3):81-99. DOI:10.3733/hilg.v13n03p081. April 1940.

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Introduction

Bathyplectes curculionis (Thoms.), a larval parasite of the alfalfa weevil, was introduced into Utah from southern Europe by the United States Department of Agriculture Bureau of Entomology during the years 1911 to 1913, inclusive. (Chamberlin (1924))4 has given a brief account of the introduction and establishment of this parasite, and in 1926 he published further data on this subject and called attention to the rapid spread and increase of the species.

After the discovery of the alfalfa weevil in the lowlands of middle California in May, 1932, the Bureau of Entomology,5 in 1933 and 1934, introduced Bathyplectes (fig. 1) into this new area.

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