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A Granulosis Virus Disease of the Western Grape Leaf Skeletonizer and its Transmission1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 May 2012

Owen J. Smith ,
Kenneth M. Hughes ,
Paul H. Dunn  and
Irvin M. Hall
Owen J. Smith
Affiliation:
Department of Biological Control, University of California
Kenneth M. Hughes
Affiliation:
Department of Biological Control, University of California
Paul H. Dunn
Affiliation:
Department of Biological Control, University of California
Irvin M. Hall
Affiliation:
Department of Biological Control, University of California
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Since 1950 the University of California has maintained a program designed to evaluate the effectiveness of certain insect parasites in the control of the western grape leaf skeletonizer, Harrisina brillians B. & McD., in San Diego County, California. During this time, all sustained efforts to produce parasites in quantities for field release have failed because of recurrent outbreaks of a disease of the skeletonizer larvae. The causative agent of this disease was identified by Steinhaus and Hughes (1952) as a granulosis virus.

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The Canadian Entomologist , Volume 88 , Issue 8 , August 1956 , pp. 507 - 515
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Copyright © Entomological Society of Canada 1956

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