Making soil containing numerous eggs of WCR for greenhouse and laboratory experiments
Németh, T.; Marczali, Z.; Nádasy, M.; Takács, J.
Communications in Agricultural and Applied Biological Sciences 74(2): 309-312
2009
ISSN/ISBN: 1379-1176 PMID: 20222585 Document Number: 628599
In the course of our work we often faced to the problem that WCR lays its eggs unevenly (Berger, 2008) so it is impossible to find soils under field circumstances which contains eggs in homogenous distribution and in large numbers. Owing to the inhomogeneous distribution and low number of eggs it is quite difficult to study the effectiveness of soil disinfectant and seed-dressing insecticides on larvae of WCR in pot experiments. Therefore, the aim of our studies was to gain soil samples with known quantity and distribution of eggs. According to our prevailing idea, numerous adults are placed into a relatively small place under ideal environmental conditions and a small quantity of soil is provided for them to lay eggs.