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Research Project:
SYSTEMATICS OF MOTHS, LEAFHOPPERS, AND TRUE BUGS OF IMPORTANCE TO AGRICULTURAL, FOREST, AND ORNAMENTAL PLANTS
Location: Dubois, Idaho
Title: New host association for Mexican rice borer in Texas
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Submitted to: Southwestern Entomologist
Publication Type:
Research Notes
Publication Acceptance Date: August 26, 2008
Publication Date: N/A
Technical Abstract: This note reports Arundo donax, giant reed or carrizo cane, as a new host association of Eoreuma loftini, the Mexican rice borer. Larvae of E. loftini were found feeding on the growing tips of A. donax canes in a nursery and in field stands along the Rio Grande in the Lower Rio Grande Valley and Laredo, Texas.
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