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USE OF THE NEMATODE DELADENUS SIRIDICOLA IN THE BIOLOGICAL CONTROL OF SIREX NOCTILIO IN AUSTRALIA

1974; Wiley; Volume: 13; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1111/j.1440-6055.1974.tb02163.x

1440-6055

R.A. Bedding, R.J. Akhurst,

Forest Insect Ecology and Management

Abstract A knowledge of the life cycles of free‐living, mycetophagous nematodes has been utilized in developing methods for the monoxenic mass rearing of hundreds of millions of Deladenus siricidicola Bedding. This tylenchid nematode causes sterility in female Sirex noctilio F., a serious pest of pine trees in southeastern Australia; it has been liberated over many of the areas affected by Sirex using the simple but highly effective techniques described.