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research article

Control of tomato leaf miners: Comparative field tests indicate Dylox and Diazinon may be suitable as replacements for parathion in control programs

authors

A. E. Michelbacher, University of California, Berkeley.
John Underhill, University of California.

publication information

California Agriculture 13(6):10-10. DOI: 10.3733/ca.v013n06p10. June 1959.

author affiliations

A. E. Michelbacher is Professor of Entomology, University of California, Berkeley. John Underhill is Farm Advisor, San Joaquin County, University of California.

abstract

Abstract Not Available – First paragraph follows:

Serious infestations of the tomato leaf miner in 1958 failed to develop because in most fields natural enemies–mostly parasites–were present in sufficient numbers to suppress the miner population to a level well below one of economic importance.