Host Plants of Western Bean Cutworm

Blickenstaff, C. C.; Jolley, P. M.

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“…At about the same time, it was found attacking corn crops in southern Idaho (Douglass et al 1957) and western Nebraska (Hagen 1962). By 1970, S. albicosta was established throughout most of Nebraska but remained rare east of the Missouri river (Blickenstaff and Jolley 1982). The species distribution remained stable for the remainder of the 20th century before undergoing a second, more rapid eastward expansion.…”

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“…Despite exploiting two very different crop species, S. albicosta does not seem to be particularly polyphagous. Blickenstaff and Jolley (1982) studied larval development on several bean species, teosinte, and several Solanaceae thought to be alternative hosts of S. albicosta. They concluded that all were inferior hosts to P. vulgaris and corn and speculated that S. albicosta may have evolved on mixed crops of corn and beans grown by Native Americans.…”

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Mitochondrial DNA Variation and Range Expansion in Western Bean Cutworm (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae): No Evidence for a Recent Population Bottleneck

Miller

Dorhout

Rice

et al. 2009

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The western bean cutworm, Striacosta albicosta (Smith) (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae), is a pest of both corn and dry bean crops. At the beginning of the 21st century, the species began to extend its range out of the Great Plains, eastward through the Corn Belt. This rapid range expansion is remarkable because the species distribution had been stable for at least the previous half century, despite the apparent abundance of suitable habitat (i.e., cornfields) immediately to the east. We hypothesized that if the western bean cutworm had to overcome a stable barrier to movement before starting the current range expansion, it probably experienced a genetic bottleneck in doing so. To test this hypothesis, variation in the mitochondrial NADH dehydrogenase one (ND1) gene was studied in populations from Wyoming, Nebraska, and Iowa. No differences in overall genetic diversity or haplotype frequencies indicative of a bottleneck were observed between the recently founded populations in Iowa and the established populations in Wyoming and Nebraska. This result suggests that the sudden loss of an ecological exclusion mechanism, allowing the species to move east in appreciable numbers, is more likely to have triggered the range expansion than the surmounting of an extrinsic barrier to movement. The nature of this mechanism is unknown but might be related to recent changes in corn farming practices and technology.

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Mitochondrial DNA Variation and Range Expansion in Western Bean Cutworm (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae): No Evidence for a Recent Population Bottleneck

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Rice

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“…Variable low larval survival was previously reported in the laboratory (Blickenstaff and Jolley 1982) when fresh corn tissue was used to rear larvae for 24 d, with survival ranging from 19 to 40%. Under Þeld cage conditions, larval survival was estimated at 3.3% in Perkins County, NE (southwestern Nebraska) (Appel et al 1993), although variation in larval survival also was detected at the same location.…”

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“…Western bean cutworm, Striacosta albicosta (Smith) (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae), is a pest of beans (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) and corn (Zea mays L.) (Blickenstaff and Jolley 1982), and it is historically distributed in the western United States (Douglass et al 1957, Hagen 1976, Blickenstaff 1979. The insectÕs expansion eastward is documented beginning in 1999 (OÕRourke and Hutchison 2000, Dorhout and Rice 2004, Rice 2006, Cullen and Jyuotika 2008, DiFonzo and Hammond 2008, Michel et al 2010, Tooker and Fleischer 2010, and it has since been reported in 11 states and provinces (Michel et al 2010).…”

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Western Bean Cutworm Survival and the Development of Economic Injury Levels and Economic Thresholds in Field Corn

Paula‐Moraes¹,

Hunt

Wright

et al. 2013

jnl. econ. entom.

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Western bean cutworm, Striacosta albicosta (Smith) (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae), is a native pest of dry beans (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) and corn (Zea mays L.). Historically, the western bean cutworm was distributed in the western United States, but since 1999 eastward expansion has been observed. In corn, economic impact is caused by larval ear feeding. Information on western bean cutworm biology, ecology, and economic impact is relatively limited, and the development of economic injury levels (EILs) and economic thresholds (ETs) is required for more effective management. Studies during 2008-2011, across three ecoregions of Nebraska, sought to characterize western bean cutworm survival and development of EILs and ETs. Calculations of EILs and ETs incorporated the dynamics of corn price, management cost, and pest survival. The results from the current study demonstrated low larval survival of this species (1.51-12.82%). The mean yield loss from one western bean cutworm larva per plant was 945.52 kg/ha (15.08 bu/acre), based on 74,100 plants per ha. Economic thresholds are expressed as a percentage of plants with at least one egg mass. This study is the first study that explicitly incorporates variable management costs and crop values into western bean cutworm EIL calculations, and larval survival into ET calculations.

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“…The western bean cutworm, Striacosta albicosta (Smith), is a pest of corn, Zea mays (L.), and dry beans, Phaseolus vulgaris (L.), throughout the westcentral United States (Hoerner 1948, Blickenstaff andJolley 1982). Damage caused by the western bean cutworm is variable, but up to 40% yield loss can occur in heavily infested cornÞelds (Appel et al 1993) and up to 80% in heavily infested bean Þelds (Hoerner 1948).…”

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Population Genetics of the Western Bean Cutworm (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) Across the United States

Lindroth¹,

Hunt²,

Skoda

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Annals of the Entomological Society of America

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The western bean cutworm, Striacosta albicosta (Smith), is a secondary pest of maize (Zea mays L.) and dry beans (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) in the western United States. Recently, this insect has undergone a major territory expansion into the eastern United States and has become a pest throughout much of the Corn Belt. This study was instigated to examine the population genetics of this pest to facilitate control and resistance management, as well as to shed light on the current habitat expansion. S. albicosta individuals were collected from 24 different locations across the traditional and expanded range and amplified fragment length polymorphism analysis was conducted to assess genetic variability. In total, 90 markers were analyzed, encompassing >90% of genetic variation. Gst across all locations was moderately high (Gst = 0.5032). AMOVA analysis revealed that the majority of genetic variation was within locations (54%) and among locations within groups (45%) indicating genetic differentiation of subpopulations. The Mantel test revealed no correlation between geographic and genetic distance (n = 548; r = 0.0045; P = 0.4350). Locations sampled in the eastern United States did not exhibit any reduction in genetic variation in comparison to locations sampled in the western United States, so we conclude that no bottleneck event has occurred with this territory expansion.

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Host Plants of Western Bean Cutworm

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Mitochondrial DNA Variation and Range Expansion in Western Bean Cutworm (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae): No Evidence for a Recent Population Bottleneck

Mitochondrial DNA Variation and Range Expansion in Western Bean Cutworm (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae): No Evidence for a Recent Population Bottleneck

Western Bean Cutworm Survival and the Development of Economic Injury Levels and Economic Thresholds in Field Corn

Population Genetics of the Western Bean Cutworm (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) Across the United States

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