Editorial Type:
Article Category: Research Article
| Online Publication Date: 01 Jul 1987
YIELD LOSSES TO FIELD CORN FROM FOLIAR FEEDING BY FALL ARMYWORM1 (LEPIDOPTERA: NOCTUIDAE)
YIELD LOSSES TO FIELD CORN FROM FOLIAR FEEDING BY FALL ARMYWORM1 (LEPIDOPTERA: NOCTUIDAE)
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Page Range: 270 – 274
During a 3 year period, 1983 - 1985, field experiments were conducted to determine the extent to which fall armyworm, Spodoptera frugiperda (J. E. Smith), reduces yield of dent corn by feeding on foliage of whorl stage plants. Results indicate that whorl feeding reduces grain yield and the degree of yield reduction may be related to plant vigor as affected by rainfall.
Keywords: Fall armyworm;
Spodoptera frugiperda
; yield losses;
Zea mays
Copyright: © 1987 Georgia Entomological Society, Inc.
Contributor Notes
1 Contribution No. 7431, Scientific Article NO. A-4441 of Maryland Agricultural Experiment Station.
2 Professor and Agricultural Aid, respectively.
Accepted: 17 Apr 1987