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Effects Of Moisture On The Clover Root Borer And Red Clover Yields, K. P. Pruess, C. R. Weaver
Effects Of Moisture On The Clover Root Borer And Red Clover Yields, K. P. Pruess, C. R. Weaver
Department of Entomology: Faculty Publications
Rainfall and populations of the clover root borer, Hylastinus obscurus (Marsham), were artificially controlled in pots of red clover grown under shelters in the field. Populations of clover root borer were higher under dry conditions. Although yield losses were high in borer-infested pots, yield reductions were no greater under dry than under wet conditions.
Harry Scott Smith, Biological Control: Riverside (1883-1957): University Of California: In Memoriam, 1959, A. M. Boyce, H. Compere, R. Van Den Bosch
Harry Scott Smith, Biological Control: Riverside (1883-1957): University Of California: In Memoriam, 1959, A. M. Boyce, H. Compere, R. Van Den Bosch
Department of Entomology: Faculty Publications
Harry Smith was born at Aurora, Nebraska, November 29, 1883. He was brought up as a farm boy and experienced all the rigors of life on a prairie farm in the latter part of the nineteenth century. The hours of work in the fields, from dawn to dusk, made an indelible impression. Admittedly, he escaped from “haying” and “tending hogs” by enrolling in the State University at Lincoln, where he worked his way by waiting on tables at fifteen cents an hour. There he was granted his A.B. degree in 1907 and his M.S. degree in 1908. Insects became his …