%0 Journal Article %J Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society %D 1991 %T Fire, mowing and insecticide effects on soil Sternorrhyncha (Homoptera) densities in tallgrass prairie %A Seastedt, T.R. %A Reddy, V.M. %K tallgrass prairie %X

Densities of soil-dwelling Sternorrhyncha (Aphidoidea + Coccoidea) in tallgrass prairie significantly increased in response to application of a foliar insecticide (carbaryl). Densities of these soil homopterans also increased in response to mowing of vegetation. Spring burning of vegetation to enhance grass production did not have a strong affect on total populations. Resource abundance of cool season grasses, as mediated by competition from other herbivores, best explain these patterns

%B Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society %V 64 %P 238 -242 %G eng %M KNZ00336 %R http://www.jstor.org/stable/25085278