Wild host plants of legume pod borer Maruca vitrata (Lepidoptera: Pyraloidea: Crambidae) in southern Niger and northern Nigeria

Venu M. Margam; Ibrahim Baoua; Niango M. Ba; Mohammad F. Ishiyaku; Joseph E. Huesing; Barry Robert Pittendrigh; Larry L. Murdock

doi:10.1017/S1742758410000123

Wild host plants of legume pod borer Maruca vitrata (Lepidoptera: Pyraloidea: Crambidae) in southern Niger and northern Nigeria

Venu M. Margam, Ibrahim Baoua, Niango M. Ba, Mohammad F. Ishiyaku, Joseph E. Huesing, Barry Robert Pittendrigh, Larry L. Murdock

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Abstract

We surveyed three locations in West Africa, two in northern Nigeria and one in southern Niger, for the presence of wild alternative hosts of the legume pod borer (LPB) Maruca vitrata Fabricius, which could serve as natural unstructured refugia for transgenic Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt)-cowpea. We surveyed a total of 67 sites in proximity to cowpea fields in the Sudan Savannah (Kano, Nigeria), the Northern Guinea Savannah (Zaria, Nigeria) and the Sahel Savannah (Maradi, Niger) ecological zones. The results indicate that alternative host plants for LPB are scarce or absent during the cowpea-growing season in these areas.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	108-114
Number of pages	7
Journal	International Journal of Tropical Insect Science
Volume	30
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1017/S1742758410000123
State	Published - Jun 2010

Keywords

Bt-cowpea
Insect resistance management
Maruca vitrata
Natural refugia
Vigna unguiculata subsp unguiculata

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Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
Insect Science

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Wild host plants of legume pod borer Maruca vitrata (Lepidoptera: Pyraloidea: Crambidae) in southern Niger and northern Nigeria

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