Rating Sugarbeets for Damage by the Sugarbeet Root Maggot

Blickenstaff, C.C. and Peckenpaugh, R.E. and Mahrt, G.G. (1977) Rating Sugarbeets for Damage by the Sugarbeet Root Maggot. Journal of the American Society of Sugar Beet Technologists. 19(3):188-191.

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Abstract

Yun found a damage rating scale to be the most useful criterion
in evaluating insecticides applied to field test plots for control
of the sugarbeet root maggot, Tetanops myopaeformis (Röder) (Diptera,
Otitidae); others (which he judged to be less useful) were loss of plant
stand, maggot counts, and yield. But he did not present data in support
of his statements. At this laboratory, maggot counts have been used
almost exclusively since 1962 to determine the direct effect of chemicals
on sugarbeet root maggots. However, in some tests the data also
included percentage of beets infested, percentage of beets scarred
(feeding damage), and damage rating. We present here an assessment
of these indices based on records at this laboratory for the period
1962-1972.

Item Type:	Article
NWISRL Publication Number:	0379
Subjects:	Irrigated crops > Sugarbeet Mass Import - autoclassified (may be erroneous)
Depositing User:	Dan Stieneke
Date Deposited:	07 Mar 2008 18:33
Last Modified:	06 Feb 2017 23:16
Item ID:	321
URI:	https://eprints.nwisrl.ars.usda.gov/id/eprint/321