VISUAL RESPONSES OF TARNISHED PLANT BUG (HEMIPTERA, MIRIDAE) ADULTS ON APPLE
VISUAL RESPONSES OF TARNISHED PLANT BUG (HEMIPTERA, MIRIDAE) ADULTS ON APPLE
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DOI:
10.1093/ee/8.2.202
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发表时间:
1979-01-01
影响因子:
1.7
通讯作者:
HAUSCHILD, KI
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作者:
PROKOPY, RJ;ADAMS, RG;HAUSCHILD, KI
Both sexes of overwintering, Lygus lineolaris (Palisot de Beauvois) adults visit apple buds and blossoms (where they feed and cause injury) as well as apple foliage, twigs and small branches. With the ultimate aim of developing a visual monitoring trap, responses of the adults to 15 .times. 20 cm sticky-coated rectangles of different hues and shades hung in apple trees were compared. Non-UV reflecting gloss white and Zn white, Zoecon Yellow and clear Plexiglas rectangles captured equivalent numbers of adults, significantly more than other hues of yellow, green, orange, blue, red, black, UV-reflecting aluminum foil or Pb white rectangles. The fact that captures on clear Plexiglas were as great or greater than captures on pigmented rectangles approximating the spectral reflectance pattern of apple buds, blossoms, foliage or bark suggests that tbe adults are not specifically oriented to the hue of tree structures which they visit. Significant difference in captures between certain pigments do suggest that visual stimuli play at least some (still undetermined) role in the orientation of adults within or to trees. Additional findings indicate that a sticky-coated, non-UV reflecting white or Zoecon Yellow rectangle, hung vertically at approximately 0.7 m above ground, is the most efficient method yet devised for detecting L. lineolaris adults in apple trees.