Claim · model-written summary
Disease-free Lema cyanella should be released against Cirsium arvense in North America.
- Taxon
- C . arvense
Cirsium arvensee5 - Interactor
- L . cyanella
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Lema cyanellae5biocontrol_agent - Outcome
- released against the weede5
- Qualifier
- disease freee5
- Setting
- North Americae5
Verbatim
e5“It is recommended that disease free L . cyanella should be released against the weed C . arvense in North America”
Title
D.P. Peschken; G.R. Johnson The Canadian Entomologist 1979. doi:10.4039/ent1111059-9
Other claims from this paper (6)
- Observation Feeding of adult and larval Lema cyanella is confined to Cirsium, Carduus and Silybum species.
- Observation Lema cyanella attacks no economic plants.
- Observation Females of Lema cyanella lay an average of 1564 eggs.
- Observation Development of Lema cyanella from egg to adult takes 17.6 days at 25°C day and 20°C night temperatures.
- Observation A colony of field-collected Lema cyanella beetles was infected with a Nosema disease.
- Observation Cirsium arvense is the main host of Lema cyanella according to literature records.