Studies of the Habits and Development of Neocerata rhodophaga Coquillett

Webster, F.M.

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Title

Studies of the Habits and Development of Neocerata rhodophaga Coquillett

Author(s)

Webster, F.M.

Issue Date

1904

Keyword(s)

• roses under glass
• cecidomyian larvae
• habitats

Abstract

About the year 1897, in the vicinity of Chicago, Illinois, certain varieties of roses grown under glass, notably the Meteor, were attacked by great numbers of minute cecidomyian larvae which destroyed the terminal leaf and blossom buds. In the greenhouses of one extensive rose-grower, the injury was so severe as to render the production of the Meteor unprofitable, and he stopped growing it for a time, until the pest seemed to have disappeared. Strangely enough, another grower, whose houses were separated from those of the first only by a narrow alley, did not at that time suffer at all from the ravages of the insect, but continued to grow the Meteor in his rose-houses without difficulty until sometime after, when he, too, began to experience severe losses on account of its depredations. The species was not definitely determined at that time, and it is impossible in the light of later investigations to say with certainty whether or not more than one was engaged in these attacks. Since then, however, a number of extensive rose-growers about Chicago have been obliged to abandon the growing of this particular variety of rose on account of its extreme liability to attack from these larvae.

Publisher

Champaign : Illinois Natural History Survey

Series/Report Name or Number

Illinois Natural History Survey Bulletin; v. 007, no. 02

Type of Resource

text

Language

en

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