Editorial Type:
Article Category: Research Article
| Online Publication Date: 01 Jan 1985
AN EVALUATION OF A PORTABLE GEIGER COUNTER TO TRACE RADIOLABELED HELIOTHIS ZEA (BODDIE) (LEPIDOPTERA: NOCTUIDAE) LARVAE IN CORN AND COTTON1
AN EVALUATION OF A PORTABLE GEIGER COUNTER TO TRACE RADIOLABELED HELIOTHIS ZEA (BODDIE) (LEPIDOPTERA: NOCTUIDAE) LARVAE IN CORN AND COTTON1
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A portable Geiger counter was evaluated for tracing the movements of radiolabeled Heliothis zea (Boddie) larvae in cotton and corn. In cotton, larvae used were labeled by injection of the parent females and phosphorus-32. These could easily be located using the Geiger counter. In corn, larvae were labeled topically so that pupation sites in the soil could be labeled. The percentage of these that could be located proved variable.
Keywords: Geiger counter; radiolabeling;
Heliothis
; larvae; cotton; corn
Copyright: © 1985 Georgia Entomological Society, Inc.
Contributor Notes
1 Paper No. 9359 of the Journal Series of the North Carolina Agricultural Research Service, Raleigh, NC 27695-7601. Use of trade names does not imply endorsement of products named nor criticisms of similar ones not mentioned.
Accepted: 30 Nov 1984