Chapter 20. Gerald Wilde. 1981. Wheat arthropod pest management. Pages 317-327. In: David Pimentel (editor). 1981. CRC Handbook of Pest Management in Agriculture. Volume 3, Boca Raton, Florida: CRC Press, 656 pages.

Keywords: damage, sampling, economic thresholds, genetic control by host plant resistance, genetic control by autocidal techniques, biological control, insecticide usage by acreage, chemical control, regulartory control, integrated pest management

Pests: army cutworm Euxoa auxillaris, armyworm Pseudaletia unipunctata, black grain stem sawfly Trachelus tabidus, cereal leaf beetle Oulema melanopus, chinch bug Blissus leucopterus leucopterus, English grain aphid Macrosiphum avenae, European wheat stem sawfly Cephus pygamaeus, fall armyworm Spodoptera frugiperda, grasshoppers Melanoplus spp., greenbug Schizaphis graminum, lesser cornstalk borer Elasmopalpus lignosellus, oatbird-cherry aphid Rhopalosiphum padi, pale western cutworm Agrotis orthogonia, sawflies Pachynematus spp., Senn pest Eurygaster integriceps, thrips, wheat bulb fly Hylemya coarctata, wheat curl mite Aceria tulipae, wheat head armyworm Faronta diffusa, wheat jointworm Harmolita tritici, wheat midge Sitodiplosis mosellana, wheat stem sawfly Meromyza Americana, wheat stem sawfly Cephus cinctus, wheat strawworm Harmolita grandis, wireworms,