The
Bitter End
Enticing agricultural pests to their last repast
Federal scientists are combining
pesticides with substances that, to people, taste bitter but to crop
pests have flavor to die for.
Further Readings:
Edwards, R., L. Bledsoe, and J. Obermeyer. Adult suppression program
for corn rootworm. Available at http://www.aes.purdue.edu/AgAnswrs/1995/7-26Adult_Suppression_prog.html.
Lipkin, R. 1995. Dyes that kill flies. Science News 147(April
15):237.
Peters, L.L., L.J. Meinke, and J.F. Witkowski. Corn rootworms—damage
they cause, and how to control them. Available at http://www.ianr.unl.edu/pubs/insects/g839.htm.
Raloff, J. 1998. Russian queens
bee-little mites' impact. Science News 154(Aug. 8):84.
______. 1996. Growers bee-moan
shortage of pollinators. Science News 149(June 29):406.
Wilson, H. Current observations of corn rootworm in first year corn
in Ohio. Available at http://www.ag.ohio-state.edu/~ipm/fycr/fycr1.htm.
Additional information about corn rootworms can be found at the Iowa
State University Department of Entomology's Web site at http://www.ent.iastate.edu/pest/rootworm/.
The Western Corn Rootworm (WCR) homepage by the University of Illinois
and the Illinois Natural History Survey is available at http://www.staff.uiuc.edu/~s-isard/index.html.
Sources:
Larry Chandler
U.S. Department of Agriculture
Agricultural Research Service
Northern Grain Insects Research Laboratory
2923 Medary Avenue
Brookings, SD 57006
C. Richard Edwards
Purdue University
Department of Entomology
1158 Entomology Hall
West Lafayette, IN 47907-1158
Morris Gaskins
Micro Flo Company
Regulatory Department
P.O. Box 772099
Memphis, TN 38117
Bill Jester
North Carolina State University
Cooperative Extension Service
P.O. Box 757
Kinston, NC 28502
Ellen Kramer
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
401 M Street, S.W.
Mailstop Code 7507C
Washington, DC 20460
Juan Lopez Jr.
U.S. Department of Agriculture
Agricultural Research Service
Areawide Pest Management Research Unit
2771 F&B Road
College Station, TX 77845
Phyllis A. Martin
U.S. Department of Agriculture
Agricultural Research Service
Building 306, BARC-EAST, Room 322
10300 Baltimore Boulevard
Beltsville, MD 20705-0000
Robert F. Schroder
U.S. Department of Agriculture
Agricultural Research Service
Building 306, BARC-EAST, Room 322
10300 Baltimore Boulevard
Beltsville, MD 20705-0000
Guillermo Cabrera Walsh
U.S. Department of Agriculture
Agricultural Research Service
South American Biological Control Laboratory
U.S. Embassy Buenos Aires
Argentina, Unit 4325
APO AA 34034-0001
From Science
News, Vol. 156, No. 2, July 10, 1999, p. 24.
Copyright © 1999, Science Service.
