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Article: New environmental entomology study findings have been reported by Y. Son and co-researchers.
- Article from:
- Ecology, Environment & Conservation
- Article date:
- November 13, 2009
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"Survival of the glassy-winged sharpshooter, Homalodisca vitripennis (Germar) (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae), was studied under various constant temperatures and feeding conditions. When provided a host plant (Citrus limon L. Burm. f.) to feed on during a 21-d trial, 100% mortality occurred at 0.1, 3.2, and 40.1 degrees C, whereas an average of 74-76% of adults survived in the 13.2-24.5 degrees C range," scientists in the United States report.
"When individually confined with moist cotton, adult longevity was greatest (16.3 d) at 13.3 degrees C, but it was
<= 7.8 degrees C but was at temperatures>= 18.9 degrees C. The relationship between temperature and survival was described by a nonlinear function that ...
<5 degrees C) or high (>