Behavioral Interactions Between Japanese Beetle (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae) Grubs and an Entomopathogenic Nematode (Nematoda: Heterorhabditidae) within Turf Microcosms

Authors: SCHROEDER, P. C.; VILLANI, M. G.; FERGUSON, C. S.; NYROP, J. P.; SHIELDS, E. J.

Source: Environmental Entomology, Volume 22, Number 3, June 1993 , pp. 595-600(6)

Publisher: Entomological Society of America

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Abstract:

Distribution of Japanese beetle, Popillia japonica Newman, grubs and dispersal of an entomopathogenic nematode, Heterorhabditis bacteriophora Poinar `Oswego' strain (an isolate from New York state), were examined for 5 wk within soil-filled flats containing grass. Japanese beetle grubs uniformly dispersed to all sections of the flats not infested with H. bacteriophora `Oswego' strain. In flats infested with H. bacteriophora `Oswego' strain, however, greater proportions of Japanese beetle grubs were recovered in sections near the nematode release site or center sections of the flats. H. bacteriophora `Oswego' strain dispersed to all sections of the flats but dispersed more rapidly within the flats infested with Japanese beetle grubs than in flats not infested with Japanese beetle grubs.

Document Type: Research article

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