Claim · model-written summary
Extended extract exposure did not affect wireworm survival, feeding vigor or preference.
- Taxon
- corn
Zea mays subsp. mayse2 - Treatment
- Extended exposure of wireworms to the extracte0
- Interactor
- Melanotus communis Gylle1pest
- Outcome
- wireworms to the extract did not affect their survival, feeding vigor, or preferencee0
- Direction
- did not affecte0
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Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Extended exposure of wireworms to the extract did not affect their survival, feeding vigor, or preference in subsequent feeding tests”
e1“corn wireworm, Melanotus communis Gyll”
e2“Seed corn treated with crude extract”
Title
Butterfly milkweed extract as a feeding deterrent of the wireworm, Melanotus communis
Michael Villani; Fred Gould Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata 1985. doi:10.1111/j.1570-7458.1985.tb03458.x
Other claims from this paper (4)
- Intervention effect Wireworms fed almost exclusively on untreated bait when offered milkweed extract treated bait.
- Intervention effect Treated bait had significantly less wireworm damage than control bait.
- Intervention effect Crude extract treatment delayed seed corn germination.
- Intervention effect Crude extract treatment depressed seed corn growth rates.