Robert S Vernon

Summary

Affiliation: Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada
Country: Canada

Publications

  1. ncbi Wireworm management I: stand protection versus wireworm mortality with wheat seed treatments
    Robert S Vernon
    Pacific Agri Food Research Centre, Agriculture and Agri Food Canada, Agassiz, British Columbia, Canada
    J Econ Entomol 102:2126-36. 2009
  2. ncbi Soil bioassay for studying behavioral responses of wireworms (Coleoptera: Elateridae) to insecticide-treated wheat seed
    Willem G van Herk
    Agriculture and Agri Food Canada, Pacific Agri Food Research Center, Agassiz, British Columbia, Canada
    Environ Entomol 36:1441-9. 2007
  3. ncbi Aggregation and mortality of Agriotes obscurus (Coleoptera: Elateridae) at insecticide-treated trap crops of wheat
    Robert S Vernon
    Pacific Agri-Food Research Centre, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, P.O. Box 1000, Agassiz, British Columbia, Canada V0M 1A0
    J Econ Entomol 98:1999-2005. 2005

Collaborators

  • Willem G van Herk

Detail Information

Publications3

  1. ncbi Wireworm management I: stand protection versus wireworm mortality with wheat seed treatments
    Robert S Vernon
    Pacific Agri Food Research Centre, Agriculture and Agri Food Canada, Agassiz, British Columbia, Canada
    J Econ Entomol 102:2126-36. 2009
    ..This is an important consideration when choosing a suitable seed treatment to replace lindane, which historically provided both stand protection and wireworm reduction, and did not have to be applied every year...
  2. ncbi Soil bioassay for studying behavioral responses of wireworms (Coleoptera: Elateridae) to insecticide-treated wheat seed
    Willem G van Herk
    Agriculture and Agri Food Canada, Pacific Agri Food Research Center, Agassiz, British Columbia, Canada
    Environ Entomol 36:1441-9. 2007
    ..Wireworms exposed to Vitavax Dual (containing the organochlorine lindane) were not repelled after feeding and showed symptoms of illness for up to 28 d before making a full recovery (89%) or dying (11%)...
  3. ncbi Aggregation and mortality of Agriotes obscurus (Coleoptera: Elateridae) at insecticide-treated trap crops of wheat
    Robert S Vernon
    Pacific Agri-Food Research Centre, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, P.O. Box 1000, Agassiz, British Columbia, Canada V0M 1A0
    J Econ Entomol 98:1999-2005. 2005
    ..obscurus populations can be assembled and killed in fallowed fields in large numbers at treated trap crops of wheat over a 19-d period when planted in rows spaced 1 m apart at a linear seeding density of 1.5 seeds/cm...