Attractiveness of Different Plant Organs of Sweet Potato and Damaged Tuber to West-Indian Sweet Potato Weevil, Euscepes postfasciatus (FAIRMAIRE) (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) in Wind Tunnel

<Author> Keiji YASUDA
<Year> 1996
<Journal> Jpn. J. Appl. Entomol. Zool.
<Volume> 40
<Issue> 2
<Pages> 160-161
<Notes> Japanese

Many more adults of the West-Indian sweet potato weevil, Euscepes postfasciatus (FAIRMAIRE), were attracted by tubers and stems than by leaves of the sweet potato in a wind tunnel. Tubers damaged by larvae were much less attractive than undamaged tubers.