Article
Viruses in Laboratory-reared Cactus Moth, Cactoblastis cactorum (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae)
2007-03-01
Abstract excerpt
The Cactoblastis cactorum colonies at the insect rearing facility at the Crop Protection and Management Research Laboratory, Tifton, Georgia, USA, were established in March and December 2001, from larvae and eggs collected from the wild in the USA and South Africa, respectively. Occasional infection and mortality due to microsporidia were detected by light microscopy in 2004. However, by late 2004, mortality was n...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 9fa51f7e-4965-531e-948b-5cf8bbbdccb9
- DOI
- 10.1653/0015-4040(2007)90[274:vilcmc]2.0.co;2
